- A powerful elixir
The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
- No more slipping through the cracks
At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...
- Back home on the range
It’s a little-known fact: Half the Earth’s surface is foraged by domesticated animals, which has enormous impacts on our increasingly precious fresh water. In British Columbia alone, about 50 percent of mostly crown land is licensed to ranchers who need forage and water for their 400,000 head of ...
- Living on the edge
It’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...
- Giving thanks
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Michael Douglas’s character famously declared in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is right. Greed works.” It was after filming last year’s sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, that Douglas noticed a strain in his larynx and soreness in his jaw. His d ...
- 'A-Team' Turns in LulzSec Members; Hackers' Id ...
The dark and intriguing world of hacking just got murkier, as a group of hackers called the "A-Team" revealed the details of the famed LulzSec hackers in an apparent spite attack. Hackers do shop fellow hackers to llaw enforcement, one reason why the world of hacking is particularly dangerous. ...
- Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hit with data breach
Financial services firm Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has become the latest firm to suffer a breach of its customer data archives. According to documents posted by financial news service Credit.com, the company has notified its customers that a pair of CDs containing the names, addresses, social ...
- Anonymous suspects arrested in Italian police ...
Italian police are the latest to make arrests in connection to hacking collective Anonymous, according to reports from the country today. 32 dawn raids were carried out, including one across the border in the Swiss region of Ticino. Following the raids, three people including one minor were a ...
- Cisco drives epic Chinese surveillance network ...
Half million Big Brother cams Cisco and other western companies are reportedly working with the Chinese government to install a network of one half-million surveillance cameras in the rapidly growing commercial and industrial metropolis, Chongqing. Citing people familiar with the deal, The Wal ...
- Microsoft publishes Wi-Fi data collection code
'Look at us! We're not Google!' Microsoft has published code for the software that its roving vehicles use to collect wireless network information. The move is an apparent attempt to make Microsoft look good next to Google. On Tuesday, the software giant proudly told the world that it had publ ...
- Army 2040 in the other universe
MoS draws our attention to the UK climate secretary's comments regarding the threat of war from climate change. This comes in the wake of recent reports and scenario planning, highlighted by our Alison, from Canada's military describing similar threats to security posed by climate change. The c ...
- Demographic distortion . . .
FOREIGN POLICY is an interesting site, with an interesting article by Mara Hvistendahl, "Where Have All the Girls Gone?". You may be aware of the problem, but there are something like 160 million women MISSING from the population in Asia.How did more than 160 million women go missing from Asia? ...
- From the cornfield . . .
A classic. Makes me think of Stevie . . .
- Fireworks . . .
WIRED has a great piece on DIY fireworks. It seems that there are those who find commercial fireworks dull and banal, and some have resorted to making their own. Essentially all public shows will use mass-produced factory fireworks, mostly from China; competition and regulation have largely snuf ...
- George Michael at Toronto Pride march?
Oops, my bad! I'm told that's just Toronto city councillor Giorgio Mammoliti (above) indulging his creepy and very peculiar fetish (well, one of them anyway) for lesbians who support justice for the Palestinians.
- Fox Hypes Photo Of One Man Climbing Border Fen ...
Fox & Friends repeatedly aired a photo of a man climbing a fence on the Mexican border to fearmonger over border security. However, illegal border crossings have reportedly "sputtered to a trickle," and the Obama administration has taken measures to increase border security; moreover, according ...
- Fox News Cooks Up Campaign Contribution Out Of ...
Fox News has fabricated the claim that a $10 annual fee approved by the National Education Association (NEA) for the next five years will be used to fund President Obama's re-election campaign. But the fee is intended to combat anti-union ballot initiatives and cannot be used to support campaig ...
- Limbaugh Teams Up With Hoft To Distort Comment ...
Rush Limbaugh cited a Gateway Pundit post on a remark by Christina Romer, the former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, that the U.S. is experiencing a "growthless recovery." While they treated this as an acknowledgment of failure on the Obama administration's part, Romer ac ...
- Right-Wing Media Return To Using "Bogus" Math ...
The right-wing media are promoting a claim made by a Weekly Standard writer that the stimulus has "cost $278,000 per job." However, simply dividing the amount of money spent by the number of jobs created is, according to an Associated Press fact check, "highly misleading," and economist and Nob ...
- Right-Wing Blogosphere Downplays Conservative ...
After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act, many right-wing bloggers criticized the decision or downplayed its significance. But one of the judges who voted to uphold the statute was Jeffrey S ...
- Prevention as the Best Defense
President Obama and key members of Congress have finally acknowledged that any deal on the deficit must include reductions in Pentagon spending. The figures being discussed are far too small, but the principle has been accepted. But the underlying question is not just about dollars, it is abo ...
- Welcome to Palestine - if you can get in
Palestinians have globally touted an array of rights that Israel systematically denies. There is the right of return, the right of freedom of movement, the right to water, the right to education, the right to enter (not to be confused with refugees' right to return) and so on. But the right ...
- Obama Nuclear Arms Reduction Blamed for Prolif ...
The world faces mounting threats of nuclear proliferation in Iran, North Korea, and potentially Saudi Arabia. Do you want to know why? Well according to Peter Brookes of the Heritage Foundation, one major cause is the US administration's own nuclear arms control policy. (Hat tip to Nonproliferat ...
- If It's Not Different This Time, Why Do We Hav ...
Two prominent medical researchers reviewed hundreds of thousands of records on infant and childhood mortality dating back over the last eight centuries. They discovered that over the vast majority of this 800-year period, only around half of newborns survived to adulthood. They concluded that we ...
- Letter to the Editor
My colleague Ken Berlin and I wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times which was published in this morning's paper. Letter An Economic Stimulus Proposal Published: July 4, 2011 To the Editor: Re "Whose Stimulus?" (editorial, June 26): You missed a key point in yo ...
- A dream deferred
The Southwestern U.S. has dominated the world of utility-scale solar projects over the past few years, with news of deals being signed for solar-power plants as large as 1 gigawatt or more. But now the Southeastern U.S. looks like it will soon be home to one of the world’s largest solar project ...
- No title
The Southwestern U.S. has dominated the world of utility-scale solar projects over the past few years, with news of deals being signed for solar-power plants as large as 1 gigawatt or more. But now the Southeastern U.S. looks like it will soon be home to one of the world’s largest solar project ...
- The fairy tale of Texas politics
In an Austin American-Statesman editorial that ran last Saturday, July 2nd, the paper talked quite candidly about the lack of a level playing field in the Texas capital as pointed out by conservative East Texas republican freshman Representative David Simpson and liberal Austin-based Public Cit ...
- Tepco, wouldn’t want to be you
In their ongoing effort to accomplish a cold shutdown by January, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), the beleaguered operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant said it had resumed the use of recycled water to cool the reactor cores this weekend, a week after its first attempt w ...
- Obscure Japanese prefecture governor could dec ...
It appears that the fate for nuclear power in Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, could be decided by a local governor of an obscure prefecture of about 850,000 residents on the southernmost main island of Kyushu. Governor Yasushi Furukawa of Saga Prefecture, must decide in coming da ...
- Musings on Mormonism and the 2012 Race
I shy away from talking about how weird Mormonism is, at least in my political work, because I really do believe that political parties and politicians should not promote or denigrate anyone's religion. But it is a pretty strange set of beliefs, and a huge number of people have trouble understa ...
- Adios, Ben Nelson
I don't think the key to Ben Nelson's reelection is to assure that he is unloved by people of every political persuasion. Nebraska is a socially-conservative state. I get that. But that makes it all the more important that a Democrat appeal to people on kitchen table issues. It's nice, if de ...
- Updates on the Coming GOP Capitulation
As I predicted, Speaker Boehner has to go crawling to Steny Hoyer for votes. Meanwhile, Boehner is sneaking in and out of the White House begging for some way out of the trap he set for himself. As one of the commenters at The Hill said, "To the Republican House…If you need Steny and Nancys vo ...
- Boehner Will Capitulate
Desperate to make a deal, Speaker Boehner met secretly with the president on Sunday. Then the president called for a summit at the White House on Thursday. The Republicans don't want to get lectured and they hope the president will take several valiums. Meanwhile, Boehner seems to be painting ...
- Wanker of the Day: Robert Epstein
May I nominate Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institute as the first to go on the pyre when the plebes finally revolt and pick up their pitchforks? The last thing we want to do is tax corporate executives and make them pay more for their business comfort... ...The big mistake in this area ...
- Moose Locked Together in Mortal Combat
An incredible sequence of images showing moose fighting it out during rutting season, locked together in combat... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Shooter the Elk Rescues Marmot from Drowning
Watch these amazing images of an elk saving a marmot This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 10 Hottest Links of the Week
As part of a new feature on Environmental Graffiti, we're going to be bringing you a weekly roundup of the best cool content on the web from our friends... Enjoy! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- What It Feels Like To Free-fall 15,000ft Throu ...
Amazing photos of free-fall skydiving that show daredevils plummeting thousands of feet through the air! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Why Polar Bears Are Skating On Thin Ice
Polar bears are on thin ice, read about why read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Cuban 5: Spies, Terrorism, and American Justice
On June 14, 2011 Carlos Hernandez, the mayor of Hialeah, a city in Miami-Dade County, “honored” the FBI and CIA funded terrorist Luis Posada Carriles by giving him the key to the city. As many know, there is overwhelming evidence linking Luis Posada Carriles to the mid-flight bombing of a Cuban ...
- Laughable It Is…
NPR spent about 15 minutes on whether there is spill over of violence from Mexico in the drug wars. 22 murders, 5 kidnappings among others, you tell me. So what? The “what” means that the “War on Drugs” is not working. Given the appetite for drugs in this country, the ideas that someone is b ...
- THE BIG LIE
The GOP claims that Social Security and Medicare are out of control and are major contributors to our National Debt. This is simply not true. Social Security and Medicare will need tweaking later to meet their goals of providing healthcare and a minimal retirement program for seniors and our d ...
- Fourth Solidarity Forum for Workers Rights and ...
On Friday July 15th, 2011 at 7:00 PM in the Nyumburu Cultural Center (www.nyumburu.umd.edu), the Black Faculty and Staff Association (www.bfsa.umd.edu) on the campus of the University of Maryland will be hosting the Fourth Solidarity Forum for Workers Rights and Respect. You are all encouraged a ...
- Fixing Our Economy In 60 Words Or Less
Solution #1 Most products are made in countries with a per capita income 1/10th of ours. When they are brought back, they are priced as if they were still made here. Through taxes or subsidies to cooperating companies, find one company to sell here at a price commensurate with costs + profit. ...
- Continuing to Expand the Mission of World Can' ...
by Debra Sweet, Director of The World Can't Wait Announcing a two-part sustainer drive that humanity needs you to be a part of! We have a goal of 50 more sustainers, collectively giving $1,000 monthly by July 31st, and another round doing the same in September so that we can continue and expand ...
- Activists conducting 'fly in' to Israel
This Friday, July 8, hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists are planning to fly to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport in a display of solidarity with Palestinians living in the occupied territories. According to organisers, at least 500 people have already scheduled flights to Israel, including Palest ...
- Murdock Brit Phone-Hacking Scandal: Families o ...
Not going to add much to this except the first thoughts I've had since this was breaking across the pond. What the hell has the FOX been doing here? And now with this coming out: � Phone-hacking scandal escalates as British Legion severs ties with News of the World What was that constant cheer l ...
- Iran: Putting the 26 US Officials on Trial
Makes sense as we condemn them constantly for what is now very public the same practices against humanity we're ordering done as we joined them, and the others who do and some we used, in the toilet as to crimes against humanity while still condemning! We even use those issues as justified excus ...
- Media Porn Hides Real Threats to Children
By Michael Collins Who knows if Casey Anthony is guilty or innocent? Even Casey might not know at this point. We do know one thing, without any doubt. As our economy and nation crumble around us, we're being amused to death by the corporate media. They've got good reason to keep the headl ...
- Nuclear power is fine—it’s corpora ...
by Jess Zimmerman. In the Guardian, George Monbiot argues that nuclear power was the least of Fukushima's problems. Sure, the nuclear industry is corrupt and regulation-resistant -- but name a power industry that isn't. When it comes to health threats, says Monbiot, the conscienceless scu ...
- Despite recession, Californians install solar ...
by Christopher Mims. While the drill-baby-drill contingent was bitching about reliance on foreign oil, that hacky-sack full of smelly Nancy-Pelosi-electing hippies known as California quietly installed more solar in 2010 than any other state, ever. The numbers: Californians install ...
- 500 MW of distributed solar could have prevent ...
by Christopher Mims. The massive blackout of 2003, which affected 45 million people in the northeast United States and 10 million more in Ontario, could have been prevented by just 500 megawatts of distributed solar, says John Farrell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance. For referenc ...
- Limitless supply of rare earth elements found ...
by Christopher Mims. The seabed of the Pacific ocean contains 1,000 times as much tonnage of rare earth elements as all the deposits on land, says a new paper published in Nature Geoscience. The elements, which are key to cleantech innovations like solar panels, batteries and electric mot ...
- Ranchers are clearing the Amazon rainforest wi ...
by Sarah Laskow. In Brazil, ranchers are opting to use Agent Orange -- one of the most toxic herbicides ever concocted, infamous for its use as a defoliant and de facto weapon during the Vietnam War -- to clear acres of rainforest. It's illegal to clear the forest, but by spraying swaths ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- St. Louis City Museum’s Towering Jungle Gym of ...
Read the rest of St. Louis City Museum’s Towering Jungle Gym of Found Objects Includes a Plane and Ferris Wheel Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: city museum, Eco Architecture, eco design, eco-tourism, found objects, green design, offbeat destinations, Reclaimed Materials, recycle ...
- Seashell-Shaped Tung Chung Swimming Pool is Wr ...
Read the rest of Seashell-Shaped Tung Chung Swimming Pool is Wrapped in an Energy Efficient Shell Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: climatic-responsive swimming pool, eco swimming pool design, ronald lu and partners swimming pool, tung chung climate responsive swimming pool, tung ...
- Historic Bogue Warehouse Transformed into Outs ...
Read the rest of Historic Bogue Warehouse Transformed into Outstanding Solar Powered Offices in Salt Lake City Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", adaptive reuse, architecture firm, architecture office, eco design, eco office, ffkr, green architecture, Gr ...
- VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: GreenShows Pop-Up at Blooming ...
Eco-fashion is heading full speed into the mainstream scene in a big way here in NYC. This past Earth Day, Bloomingdales hosted The GreenShows EcoLux Pop-Up Shop, showcasing some of the hottest green designers working in the industry today. Hot on anything eco, we headed on over to the pop-up sh ...
- VIDEO: Portable Gadgets that Generate Renewabl ...
Ever wished you could charge your cell phones and laptop on the go – in your car, on a train, or just walking around? There are many new gadgets that have come on the market for mobile renewable energy: from solar gadget chargers, to kinetic energy chargers, to mini portable wind turbines. Check ...
- The Space Shuttle Program’s Oddest Passengers
See Also: Final Space Shuttle Mission Will Feature iPhones What Will Happen to All the Shuttle Stuff? Baby Squid, Bugs and Microbes Launched Into Space 3 Great Ways to Watch the Last Space Shuttle Missions
- Listen to a Thunderstorm on Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft eavesdropped on a storm on Saturn on March 15, 2011, by capturing pulses of radio waves from the lightning strikes, and sent back audio of the event.
- Storms Threaten Friday Space Shuttle Launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — A wave of tropical storms heading toward Kennedy Space Center threatens to delay the last launch of NASA’s space shuttle program Friday morning. “It’s not looking favorable right now for launch,” said shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters, who gave a 70 percent chance ...
- The Mystery of the (Maybe) Missing Monarchs
Two recent studies of monarch butterfly populations paint very different pictures of the champion migrant’s long-term fate. In March, ecologist Lincoln Brower of Virginia’s Sweet Briar College expressed concern that monarchs are perilously close to collapse. But in June, University of Georgia e ...
- NASA’s Stillsuit: Atlantis Crew to Test Pee-Re ...
A textbook-sized kit that can convert urine into drinkable water will accompany NASA's last space shuttle mission this Friday.
- 14 Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Br ...
There is nothing more sacred to the maintenance of democracy than a free press. Access to comprehensive, accurate and quality information is essential to the manifestation of Socratic citizenship – the society characterized by a civically engaged, well-informed and socially invested populace. Th ...
- Weather Modification – A Covert Weapon Of Mass ...
Between 1962 and 1983, the United States Navy, the U.S. Weather Bureau and the National Science Foundation carried out an experimental research program that was yielding some success in moderating hurricanes. Project Stormfury was suspended, however, and eventually terminated for specious reason ...
- Video: Radiation Coverups Confirmed
A series of disasters, potential disasters, bad news and worrying studies over the course of the past week have brought public attention back to the issue of radiation and its attendant health risks, and further exposed how governmental agencies that are supposed to protect the public have in fa ...
- Warning: Silver and Gold Trading Getting Banned
Many have probably seen headlines racing through the internet to the effect of “Gold and Silver Trading Could Be Made Illegal on July 15th”. There have been very heated arguments about exactly what the impact will be on the precious metals industry and traders as a whole. My approach to the b ...
- Freemasonry – The Ultimate Gang
It shouldn't be any surprise. That these fabulously famous and wealthy young men get roped into an exclusive club for other "elites" is almost expected, especially considering Freemasonry's rapacious appetite for power. What probably blows their minds is the other "brethren" they soon meet in ...
- The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles & ...
Please support my work! For over five years, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there over the last nine and a half years, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, since May 2007, as a full-time independent investigative journalist ...
- WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
- Torture “Does Not Work, And Is WrongR ...
In the US media, there’s a little bit of a buzz right now about the use of torture by the Bush administration, and much of it is the right sort of buzz — openly involving reminders that torture is a crime, and that, in addition, using torture is worthless if the aim is to produce [...]
- Leaked Letter Reveals Tory Welfare Reform Madn ...
Britain’s incompetent coalition government has just hit a new low. In a leaked letter to David Cameron from the office of Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, the ruinous impact of the government’s decision to cap benefits at £500 a week per family (essenti ...
- The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles & ...
Please support my work! For over five years, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there over the last nine and a half years, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, since May 2007, as a full-time independent investigative journalist ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- News Roundup for July 6, 2011
A Tennessee man was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the racially motivated killing of a public employee. Dale Mardis, 57, brutally killed Shelby County, Tenn., code enforcement officer Mickey Wright in April 2001 and recently confessed to an unsolved murde ...
- No More Mr. Nice Guy: Patrick Buchanan and the ...
Conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan – for reasons that aren’t always evident to the reasonable observer – has long enjoyed credibility among mainstream conservatives despite some startlingly white nationalist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay viewpoints. He once again burnished his loathing of al ...
- News Roundup for July 1, 2011
DNA evidence has been presented in the trial of two Illinois men alleged to have beaten and robbed a woman because of her sexual orientation. The defense is seeking a possible plea deal over the evidence, which may provide a definitive link to the crime in which the two assailants made anti-gay ...
- News Roundup for July 5, 2011
The trial of a California teen accused of a murdering a gay classmate in 2008 begins today. Brandon McInerney, 17, allegedly shot and killed Larry King, 15, in class after a long history of bullying and fights over King’s sexual orientation. A search of McInerney’s bedroom revealed white suprema ...
- Another ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Learns ...
Declaring yourself a “sovereign citizen” exempt from government authority and tax obligations must be something of a rush – until that government decides to slap handcuffs on you. Consider the case of Marshall Edwin Home, 81, a self-described multibillionaire and dispenser of highly questionable ...
- Victory! New York Passes Marriage Equality Bil ...
Today is a historic day! New York's Senate passed a bill that will grant the freedom to merry for gays and lesbians! The bill will be signed by Governor Cuomo who lobbied extensively for the passage of the legislation. The law will go into effect 30 days after the bill is signed. New York's prog ...
- The Cost of Fear: Michigan's $15 Million Breed ...
This week, Gov. Rick Snyder signed Michigan's 2011-2012 budget into law. The process wasn't pretty — a $1.5 billion shortfall had to be resolved, and in the end, public schools, universities, local governments and key services took a hit. Yet Rep. Tim Bledsoe (D-Grosse Pointe) seems to think it' ...
- Connect the Dots Coalition Will Rally Tuesday ...
Former New York police officers Ken Moreno and Franklin Mata were found not guilty on charges related to rape. The verdict's perceived injustice -- felt even by members of the jury themselves -- has given rise to protests over the way the NYPD deals with sexual assault. But the then-officers wer ...
- Smithfield's Broken Gestation Crate Promise
Back in 2007, Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer, said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017. Now the company has gone back on that promise even though it recently boasted record profits. Looks like the behemoth pork producer has no excuse for breaking its promise. S ...
- Tell Turn Right USA to Pull Ad Attacking L.A. ...
It’s been called the “most offensive political ad of all time.” That’s because it takes aim at Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn’s support of gang intervention programs by portraying her as a booty-shaking stripper performing for black thugs who demand (or rap, rather) that she “give us your ...
- Obama Under Fire Over Detention of Terror Susp ...
The Obama administration approved the secret detention of a Somali terror suspect on board a US navy ship, where for two months he was subjected to military interrogation in the absence of a lawyer and without charge. read more
- UN Refugee Agency Warns of Crisis 'of Unimagin ...
High levels of malnutrition, combined with ongoing violence in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, are threatening "a human tragedy of unimaginable proportions", the UNHCR warned. Following several seasons of failed rains and spiralling global food prices, drought has hit more than 12 million pe ...
- Private Security Industry Booming, Says Small ...
UNITED NATIONS - A booming private security industry - triggered mostly by terrorist threats, domestic insurgencies and drug wars - deploys some 20 million armed personnel worldwide: twice the number of police officers, according to the annual 2011 Small Arms Survey released here. Outside of war ...
- Exxon's Yellowstone Oil Spill Shows Pipeline Risks
The environmental disaster that began unfolding last week when an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured in Montana and spilled an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River highlights the serious environmental risks associated with the oil industry's infrastructure -- and foreshadows the ...
- Hundreds of Afghans Protest NATO Air Raid Deaths
GHAZNI, Afghanistan - Hundreds of people gathered in a restive Afghan province to protest the deaths of two young shepherds they said were killed by a foreign air strike on Wednesday, an Afghan official said. Elsewhere, 32 men from a mine clearance organisation were kidnapped by unknown gunmen i ...
- Keir Starmer: Rape claims retracted out of fea ...
Director of public prosecutions issues guidance to help distinguish genuine victims in danger of attackWomen who retract allegations of rape out of fear of violence should not face criminal charges, according to fresh guidance issued by the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC.His an ...
- News of the World axed by News International
Sunday edition of Murdoch's tabloid to be last in the aftermath of political and commercial fallout from phone-hacking scandal Read News International's statement in fullNews International announced on Thursday that it is closing the News of the World after this Sunday's edition, with no end in ...
- Casey Anthony to be freed next week
Anthony is sentenced to four years for lying about daughter Caylee's death, but will be freed because of time already servedA Florida judge has sentenced Casey Anthony, the young mother cleared of murdering her two-year-old child, to the maximum four years in prison for lying to police about the ...
- Argentina president bans sex ads in newspapers
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner crackdown on sex workers comes as a surprise in a nation where prostitution is legalArgentina's president has banned classifed newspaper adverts by sex workers, in the latest episode of a long-running and acrimonous dispute with the country's opposition media.Crist ...
- Codex Calixtinus manuscript stolen from Santia ...
Priceless 12-century manuscript, which contains Europe's first travel guide, went missing from a safe in Spanish cathedralA priceless 12th-century illustrated manuscript containing what has been described as Europe's first travel guide has been stolen from the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela ...
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- CASA de Maryland receives reprisal for helping ...
You don't have to be an employee to suffer retaliation for speaking truth to power. This summer, I have been helping CASA de Maryland, an immigrant rights organization. We helped tenants in a number of buildings in the Hyattsville, Long Branch and Langley Park areas. They are organizing to addre ...
- 'Project Gunrunner' Scandal Heats Up
In January 2011, scandal broke out over “Project Gunrunner,” a program of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agency (ATF). The intended goal of “Project Gunrunner” was to limit the flow of firearms into Mexico through close surveillance of undercover gun purchases. ATF agents encour ...
- Seats Remaining for Los Angeles CLE Seminar
Tomorrow, June 28th, NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn will present his Corporate Whistleblower CLE seminar in Downtown Los Angeles at Carlsmith Ball LLP. Space is still available for this special seminar. The event will run from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (PDT), and will focus on the new Dodd-F ...
- Is the IRS Systemically Averse to Whistleblowers?
Since the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) instituted a new whistleblower program in 2006, only one award has been made to a whistleblower, according to Mike Hudson from iWatch News. In yesterday’s article, “Red tape, old guard slow whistleblowing on corporate tax cheats,” Hudson explains why the ...
- Kohn Op-Ed in New York Times tells the story b ...
Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), published an op-ed article in today's New York Times.The article tells the story of Captain John Grannis, and nine other sailors of the Continental Navy. The full story is contained in The Whistleblower's Handbook ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- MPAA: Forget National Security, This Is About ...
Just the other day, famed troll-magnet Marcus Carab and I were discussing my fear of diving too deeply into HTML code. What am I afraid of, you ask? Well, because I'm an idiot, part of me believes that there is some kind of HTML super code out there that, if inputted into a simple blog post, wo ...
- Silly Promotional Stunt Lawsuit Against CBS Fo ...
Earlier this year, we wrote about an absolutely ridiculous lawsuit from a guy named Alki David. Lots of sources reported on the story as if it was serious, but we assumed it was a publicity stunt lawsuit. David's startup was being sued by broadcasters, such as CBS, for trying to retransmit TV ...
- Debunking Some Big Myths About Patents
Rick Falkvinge recently put together an excellent post debunking ten of the common myths you hear about patents. Here's a taste: Myth 2: Patents drive innovation. Fact: Patents do not drive innovation, they�ban innovation. A patent is, by its very definition, something that bans the entire ...
- DailyDirt: Do You Want To Sell Sugar Water For ...
The famous Pepsi Challenge was reportedly introduced by John Sculley, but despite the conclusion that more people prefer Pepsi, Coke still seems to outsell Pepsi in most (not all!) parts of the world. The original formulas for both colas seem to be in the public domain, but copycat colas haven't ...
- Tons Of YouTube Users Putting Up Videos In Pro ...
We've been talking a lot about Senate bill S.978, from Senators Amy Klobuchar, John Cornyn and Christopher Coons, which would adjust the criminal copyright statutes to make some forms of linking/embedding/streaming a felony for which people could face 5 years in jail. As we've noted from the be ...
- Is There Payola In Pharmacology?
Do you remember a child’s saying, “Pishper shame, pishper shame, you ruined your name”, when someone was caught telling a fib? Well, what should we be saying now that it’s revealed that several respected medical researchers have been caught with their ‘disclosure pants’ down?Vactruth.com
- Was A Court Ban On Mandatory Vaccination In It ...
Courts in Italy may have made attempts to stop mandatory vaccination. The first case involved 50 brave families who took their complaints to the appeal court in Ancona. Vactruth.com
- What Happens When…
With Child Protective Services (CPS) virtually in every city, county, and state in the USA, what happens when a parent harms a child? Child Protective Services removes the child from the parents’ care and custody and then places the child under the agency’s foster care program with parents facin ...
- Top 5 Vaccine Stories for June
We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.Vactruth.com
- Canada to Host Conference on False Accusations ...
Around the world thousands of innocent parents are being falsely accused of child abuse, many of these accusations occur after a vaccine injury has taken place. The main accusations that parents and care givers are being accused of are Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy and Shaken Baby Syndrome.Vact ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
I try to keep my petty problems out of the blog, but I have this issue with my upstairs neighbor. She is whiny, hyper-sensitive, and dateless on weekends. This has led to her complaining about us to management. We, of course, are trying to figure out how to be as loud and obnoxious as possible [...]
- Unions? NBA? Sigh.
I’m in the middle of writing a completely different post on media, which is taking me entirely too long and should have been up yesterday. But while on the gerbil machine at the gym, I caught Sports Center’s coverage of the NBA lockout. Â Now I can’t get my head back into what I was writing. [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
I am having one hell of a time trying to catch up on blog reading and whatnot. I cannot believe how many thousands of posts have accumulated. I may have to consider culling my reader a bit. I used to work for a non-profit that helped caregivers of brain impairments. So stories, like this one, ab ...
- Whose Fault Is It?
The Dilbert guy is being hateful and thick again. He wrote a post on the recent spate of men caught “tweeting, raping, cheating” and had this to say. The part that interests me is that society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful and criminal while the natura ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
So I’m gone for a week and a half and the only thing I seem to have missed is the ongoing saga of Weinergate. I really need to get me one of those anatomically correct Weiner action figures. If you haven’t read Marty Klein’s piece on the brouhaha, I would highly recommend it. Seriously, would [...]
- آليات ما بعد ثورة اليمن ينبغي أن تبدأ محلياً ...
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- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
- Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
- eCORRE Complex Made From Two Memes Of The Mome ...
Images Credit Aphid iODEA on the Open Architecture Network I am late to the party on this one, already seen on Inhabitat and Gizmag, because it has taken me some time to figure out how it actually works. It's called the eCORRE, for Environmental Center of Regenerative Research & Education, ...
- Juice Beauty Gives Drab Summer Skin a Boost
All photos: Juice Beauty Juice Beauty first caught our eye back in 2005 and they're still impressing us today with their full line of skin care products that are created with an organic juice base -- as opposed to water -- and up to 98% organic ingredients. I tried out some of the best- ...
- British Prime Minister Asks Ministers and Civi ...
Britain's Foreign Office has already asked ambassadors and civil servants to fly economy in an effort to cut their carbon emissions. (See Mike's excellent guide to greener flying on why the demand business class seats creates more emissions per passenger mile.) Now the Guardian reports that ...
- Old Mine Becomes 1.4MW Solar Power Plant
Image credit: Solarcentury Utility-scale solar power was just getting started in the UK, when developments had the brakes put on by an unexpected review of Government feed-in tariffs to large-scale solar. Nevertheless there have been a slew of larger solar projects going up over the last fe ...
- How to Find Wild Food in the Mountains of New ...
Image credit: The Perennial Plate Yesterday I posted a rather divisive video on trapping and killing feral pigs in Texas. This next offering from The Perennial Plate—the same folks who brought us video of alternative dairy farming, and hunting and eating roadkill in Minnesota&md...Read the ...
- Sense of justice built into the brain
A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that the brain has built-in mechanisms that trigger an automatic reaction to someone who refuses to share. The reaction derives from the amygdala, an older part of the brain. The subjects’ sense of justice was challenged in a two-player mone ...
- Team describes neurological basis for embarras ...
Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, ...
- New Research Suggests Dramatic Shift In Unders ...
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in collaboration with researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, have made a critical discovery that may lead scientists to abandon the use of broad conventional ethnic labelsâAfrican-American, Hispanic, and Caucasianâto es ...
- Anti-inflammatory drug may fight breast cancer
German researchers have identified an unexpected molecular marker that predicts how sensitive hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancers are to chemotherapy. Triple-negative breast cancers –which do not express the genes for estrogen receptor, or progesterone receptor and do not have Her2/neu ...
- The soul of a cell: Researchers used advanced ...
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a machine already in use for the measurement of impurities in semiconductors and used it to analyze immune cells in far more detail than has been possible before. The new technology lets scientists take simultaneous measurement ...
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Robert G. Tenney Jr., 29, Warner Robins, GA.Army Capt. Matthew G. Nielson, 27, of Jefferson, ...
- 'No On SB 5': How we got 1.3 million signatures
One at a time, that’s how.I know that’s a flippant way to put it, but all the big picture stuff risks losing sight of the most important thing of all: This happened because passionately committed individuals took it upon themselves to get the training and put themselves in a position to ask thei ...
- Merrill Lynch Pays Back its Bailout with Free ...
Today on the Capitol square in Madison, a group called US Uncut (@usuncutwi) partnered with “too big to fail” bank Merrill Lynch to help give a little something in return for the taxpayer bailout they received. A table was set up in front of the Merrill Lynch branch on the square, and well-dres ...
- Weekend wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Jonathan Schell on the Orwellian evasions of our latest war:Nonetheless, the Obama administration insists it is not a war. Why? Because, ac ...
- Anti-Fracking group meeting in Cleveland Heigh ...
Sunday, June 263:00 AM - 4:30 PMWhere: 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights 44118Main Branch of Cleveland/University Hts. Library Meeting Room B, first floorThe new Cuyahoga County group, the Burning River Anti-Fracking Network, is meeting this Sunday to work on getting a ban on fracking in Clevelan ...
- TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
- Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
- Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
- Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
- New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
- Revelations On Toxic Sun Tanning Lotions, Nutr ...
Scientists reverse stance on sun and cancer: Now they admit sunlight can prevent skin cancer About one half of personal skin care products have been found to contain cancer causing toxic chemicalsSubmitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- The BP Corexit Japanese Connection Why Toxic ...
Why did BP and the EPA keep on using Nalco�s Corexit, which is highly toxic to both humans and wildlife? Turns out that Rodney F. Chase, who sits on the board of Nalco, was also a BP board member.Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- A clear and present danger
Barely a week goes by when Times Higher Education does not carry a complaint or a warning from an academic about threats to their cherished right to speak out. And it is not just high-profile people - there is a real sense of unease among rank-and-file Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cult ...
- Al Qaeda Itself Does Not Exist
There really is no relationship between Al Qaeda and the Afghan opium trade. That is because Al Qaeda itself does not exist, except in the fevered imaginations of neo-cons and Likudniks, some of whom, I suspect, also know it is a myth, but find it Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �|� � ...
- How much coal is in your life ?
By compiling data from government agencies, scientists and non-profit organizations, this simple three question quiz can give you a snapshot of how coal pollution is impacting you and your community.Sierra ClubSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Obama offers Social Security cuts
ShareThisAfter Wall Street/GOP maggot Barack Obama forced Democrats to keep Bush's tax cuts for the rich: Obama offers Social Security cuts 06 Jul 2011 President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major chan ...
- Militants attack NATO tanker in Pakistan
ShareThisMilitants attack NATO tanker in Pakistan 07 Jul 2011 Taliban-linked militants in southern Sindh Province of Pakistan have attacked a NATO oil tanker carrying fuel for the US-led forces in Afghanistan, leaving at least two people injured. Officials told Press TV that unknown gunmen opene ...
- NATO airstrike kills 8 Afghan children
ShareThisNATO airstrike kills 8 Afghan children 07 Jul 2011 A US-led airstrike has targeted a house in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 13 civilians, including eight children, police officials say. According to police officials, the US-led forces carried out the aerial attack on Wednesday i ...
- Alert: Terrorists Look to Implant Bombs in Humans
ShareThisAlert: Terrorists Look to Implant Bombs in Humans --U.S. security official: No current information points to specific plot involving surgically implanted explosives 06 Jul 2011 Airlines are being warned by the government that terrorists are considering surgically hiding bombs inside hum ...
- Nuclear Industry Weighs $1 Billion Emergency-R ...
ShareThisNuclear Industry Weighs $1 Billion Emergency-Response Plan 06 Jul 2011 The Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry's U.S. trade group, is considering a $1 billion plan that would create regional centers to store equipment for delivery to reactors within 24 hours of an emergency. The cent ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
“Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...
- Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
- Watch out for election day fraud
Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
- Today's election thoughts
Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
- 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
- Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
- eCORRE Complex Made From Two Memes Of The Mome ...
Images Credit Aphid iODEA on the Open Architecture Network I am late to the party on this one, already seen on Inhabitat and Gizmag, because it has taken me some time to figure out how it actually works. It's called the eCORRE, for Environmental Center of Regenerative Research & Education, ...
- Juice Beauty Gives Drab Summer Skin a Boost
All photos: Juice Beauty Juice Beauty first caught our eye back in 2005 and they're still impressing us today with their full line of skin care products that are created with an organic juice base -- as opposed to water -- and up to 98% organic ingredients. I tried out some of the best- ...
- British Prime Minister Asks Ministers and Civi ...
Britain's Foreign Office has already asked ambassadors and civil servants to fly economy in an effort to cut their carbon emissions. (See Mike's excellent guide to greener flying on why the demand business class seats creates more emissions per passenger mile.) Now the Guardian reports that ...
- Old Mine Becomes 1.4MW Solar Power Plant
Image credit: Solarcentury Utility-scale solar power was just getting started in the UK, when developments had the brakes put on by an unexpected review of Government feed-in tariffs to large-scale solar. Nevertheless there have been a slew of larger solar projects going up over the last fe ...
- How to Find Wild Food in the Mountains of New ...
Image credit: The Perennial Plate Yesterday I posted a rather divisive video on trapping and killing feral pigs in Texas. This next offering from The Perennial Plate—the same folks who brought us video of alternative dairy farming, and hunting and eating roadkill in Minnesota&md...Read the ...
- Federal appeals court orders immediate end to ...
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday lifted a stay [order, PDF] in Log Cabin Republicans v. USA [case materials], ordering an immediate end to enforcement of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) policy [10 USC � 654 text; JURIST news arch ...
- Federal appeals court upholds Illinois ex-gove ...
[JURIST] An appeals court on Wednesday rejected convicted former Illinois governor George Ryan's appeal seeking to overturn his 2006 conviction on corruption charges. The 77-year-old Ryan was convicted [JURIST report] in 2006 on multiple counts of corruption and fraud [indictment, PDF] in connec ...
- Women still facing global discrimination: UN
[JURIST] Women around the world are still facing discrimination, according to a report [text, PDF; materials] released Wednesday by UN Women [official website] detailing the legal and humanitarian struggles of women across the globe. The report, "Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Just ...
- Libya government to charge 21 members of rebel ...
[JURIST] Libyan Judge Khalifa Isa Khalifa announced Wednesday that charges are being filed against 21 rebels attempting to overthrow Libyan leader Mummar Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. Charges include [AP report] facilitating foreign intervention in Libya [JURIST backgrounder], prov ...
- US brings Somali terror suspect to New York fo ...
[JURIST] The Obama administration has brought Somali terror suspect Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame to the US to face a civil trial in New York, a decision that has sparked harsh criticism. Warsame was captured by US forces in April [CNN report] somewhere in the Gulf region and detained on a US Navy sh ...
- How Obama Tries to Win Twitter & Influence People
In the age of Twitter, everyone can have a voice. But can everyone be heard? On a press preview call for Wednesday's joint White House-Twitter "townhall" event, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer tried to sell reporters on the idea that, "when we do things with Twitter and Faceb ...
- Gary Johnson Solicits Contributions from Poker ...
He's hoping to raise money from a libertarian-leaning crowd with deep pockets. If his gambit works, it may cause other pols to notice gamblers. In a campaign stop only he would make, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson is expected tonight at one of the Las Vegas parties that kicks off th ...
- In Debt Talks, Social Security Cuts Are on the ...
As Obama and Republicans look for $2 trillion in savings, seniors' benefits might change While the political jousting continues, President Obama and congressional Republicans are moving closer to a multi-tiered deal that would include changes in Social Security benefits, tax ref ...
- Boehner: 'Maybe 50-50' Chance of Imminent Debt ...
Some Republicans see even better odds of an agreement with the White House House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday informed fellow House Republicans that the chances of congressional leaders and President Obama reaching a tentative debt-ceiling deal within 48 hours is ...
- Outside Groups Deflate Obama's Bully Pulpit
With groups like American Crossroads spending millions to control the national debate, what's a president to do? In December, President Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell negotiated a continuing resolution and an extension of the Bush tax cuts; a few months later ...
- IDF Castrator Earns Second-Highest National Award
One of Israel’s most decorated and veteran officers, Amos Horev, recently earned the ‘Security of Israel Prize’ for Lifetime Achievement (Hebrew) in a ceremony presided over by Pres. Shimon Peres and defense minister Ehud Barak.  This is the second highest national award offered after the Isra ...
- Israel: ‘Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid’
Whenever peace activists devise a new means of challenging Israel’s Occupation, whether it be BDS, Nakba protests, the Gaza Flotilla, the September UN vote on Palestinian statehood, or the Flight of Return, the primary response from Israel seems something verging on outright or barely controlled ...
- September Surprise: Israeli Attack on Iran?
A retired journalist who covered the intelligence beat, and with extensive senior intelligence sources, reports to me that Israel is planning to attack Iran before the September UN meeting at which Palestinian statehood will be discussed and possibly approved. Â He wrote to me some weeks ago: …S ...
- Irish Gaza Flotilla Activists: ‘Israel Sabotag ...
The Irish Flotilla ship, Saorise, was sabotaged about a week ago while it sat in a Turkish port. This was after the Turkish government directed the aid group, IHH, to remove the Mavi Marmara from the Flotilla. Â While a Turkish diplomat claimed no sabotage had occurred to the Irish boat, the act ...
- Israeli Ministers, IDF Commander to Honor Raci ...
Just yesterday I wrote a post in which I called the police interrogation of Rabbi Dov Lior for incitement a “charade,” since the authorities cannot nor will not do anything meaningful to address the savagery and violence of his views against Palestinians and Israeli democracy. Â He supports the ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
- FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
- My Predicament
For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
- High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
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- Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
- Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
- Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
- I’m On The Run
Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
- Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- When Moral Systems Miss the Point in Newsgames
In "Newsgames: Journalism at Play," we argue that the news quiz "is an incredibly simple type of game, but one that nevertheless can transmit factual information in a refreshing way." Perhaps our favorite example is an op-ed suite from The New York Times called "Turning Points, 2008 Edition," wh ...
- MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activis ...
I attended last Thursday's afternoon plenary "Civic Media Mobilization," at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the imm ...
- TileMill Opens Up a World of Mapping Possibili ...
One of our favorite collaborative open data projects is OpenStreetMap. We've talked before about the project's goals, how its free and open nature is advantageous for non-profit and commercial applications alike, and how its open and near-real-time editing process is a major advantage in rapidly ...
- Knight Announces 2011 News Challenge Winners
Not so long ago, journalists were playing catch-up in the digital media space. But at this year's MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, it's become evident that journalism 2.0 is growing up. Alberto Ibargüen, CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, today announced the winners of the K ...
- Find the 'Big Carrot' in Your Mobile App
In the past, I've talked about some of the nuances in creating a location-based mobile app. Now I'd like to share some techniques for how we decided what to include in version 1 of the CityCircles mobile app, and how we accomplished what we did, to help you narrow your focus for any future apps ...
- Digital Edge - Tiny new Antenna may Lead to a ...
Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to mass-produce antennas so small that they approach the fundamental minimum size limit for their bandwidth, or data rate, of operation.This could lead to new generations of wireless consumer electronics and mobile devices th ...
- Digital Edge - Silicon Roundabout Tech Calls f ...
The Silicon Roundabout Tech community has issued an open letter to the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, and key members of the Cabinet, calling for the urgent and fulsome adoption of IP reforms recommended by Professor Ian Hargreaves in his report commissioned by the Prime Minister, which was i ...
- Egypt after the Revolt - Questions Emerge in E ...
On July 1 and 8, protestors plan to hold demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square. If they experience the same violent repression seen at the June 28-29 protests, however, many will begin to question how much has actually changed since the days of former president Hosni Mubarak.On June 27, famili ...
- Inside America - Urban Farming Continues to Sp ...
For 30 years, Charlie Koiner, 90, has continued to farm, even as development springs up around him. On a warm day, Charlie Koiner tends to the fruits and vegetables growing on his patchwork farm, which is made up of a collection of small plots. A few blocks - and a world - away is downtown Silve ...
- The Edge of Terrorism - The Devolution of Jiha ...
On June 22 in a Seattle warehouse, Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif pulled an unloaded M16 rifle to his shoulder, aimed it, and pulled the trigger repeatedly as he imagined himself gunning down young U.S. military recruits. His longtime friend Walli Mujahidh did likewise with an identical rifle, assuming ...
- Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Caught Runn ...
In the twisted world of the United Nations, where fair is foul and foul is fair, Richard Falk is the perfect UN employee. As I pointed out when he was appointed to his position, as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights (the official Israel basher) Falk is a believ ...
- REVERSAL! DHS Now Says Putting Israel on Ter ...
Last week we reported that the Department of Homeland Security Israel on a list of 36 nations which �have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members.� That's right Israel, who had been on the front lines of the war against Islamist terror almost sin ...
- COVER UP! ATF Director Says Justice Department ...
Obstruction of Justice a very serious charge when made against any U.S. citizen.� Its even worse when the charge is made against the Justice Department which is charged with enforcing the law. But according to Ken Melson, the acting director of the ATF, the Justice Department is obstructing t ...
- New Poll Shows Jewish Vote Abandoning Obama
Its seems as if with each passing day there is another poll reporting American Jews dissatisfaction with President Obama. Yesterday it was the Gallup poll which despite the dishonest write up, showed that American Jews were abandoning Obama faster than the general population. Released late ...
- It’s All About Creating American Jobs!
Two defense companies are competing for a proposed American contract to build light attack planes for the counter-terror effort: Hawker Beechcraft of Wichita, Kansas, and a Brazilian company named Embraer. There are so many reasons why the best thing for the country would be for Hawker Beec ...
- Russian FSB Boss: Internet a Haven for Terrorists
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 6, 2011 The boss of Russia’s Federal Security Service, the main successor of the KGB during the Soviet era, told the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency that global terrorists are actively integrating with new media. “The activity of many terrorist organizations is b ...
- Is the Internet Making People Dumber?
If you think the Internet was invented by DARPA to make it easier for us to live, enjoy life and more easily buy slave-made products, you are damn wrong. Paul Joseph Watson PrisonPlanetLive July 6, 2011 Like any technology, the Internet is a double-edged sword, but is the world wide web literall ...
- Russian-American Arctic War
Terry Macalister UK Guardian July 6, 2011 Heavy-hitting US politicians enter debate about the future of the far north, fuelling concerns about a new cold war. The seventh ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council in May looked like it would be a mundane affair with its focus on signing a new sea ...
- The Corporate Internet Based Reconnaissance Op ...
United States government contractors partner to spy on everything to “keep us safe”.  Internet Based Reconnaissance Operations (Echelon) Tom Burghardt Global Research July 6, 2011 Last week, the White House released its National Strategy for Counterterrorism, a macabre document that places a p ...
- Portugal Debt rated as ‘junk’
Moodies July 5, 2011 Moody’s Investors Service has today downgraded Portugal’s long-term government bond ratings to Ba2 from Baa1 and assigned a negative outlook. Concurrently, Moody’s has also downgraded the government’s short-term debt rating to (P) Not-Prime from (P) Prime-2. Today’s rating a ...
- Study finds wind turbines can sometimes be tou ...
Potsdam, NY — Wind farms reduced the value of nearby real estate in two Northern New York counties, but not in a third. Martin D. Heintzelman and Carrie M. Tuttle, of Clarkson University, studied 11,331 real estate transactions over nine years and found that the value of property near wind turbi ...
- The reality of wind power
Wind turbines cost more to operate and maintain than planned, often have poor reliability, and place costly strains on other generators warns one early wind adopter, but so far the public is willing to bear the costs. Kevin Gaden, wholesale power director for the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebra ...
- Lincolnshire couple in landmark court case ove ...
A couple who claim they were driven out of their Lincolnshire farm by the hum of wind turbines have started a High Court bid for £2.5m compensation. Jane and Julian Davis moved from Grays Farm in Deeping St Nicholas because of what they said was the strain of living with the incessant noise. Th ...
- State takes jurisdiction over wind farm
Instead of local officials, a state committee will decide whether a wind farm will be built in Antrim because the local process could have derailed the state’s energy goals. Earlier this year, Antrim selectmen, about 100 residents and Antrim Wind Energy LLC, part of Eolian Renewable Energy of De ...
- Umatilla County turbine rules OK’d
A victory years in the making was handed down by Umatilla County Commissioners on Tuesday. Commissioners Dennis Doherty, Larry Givens and Bill Hansell, in a series of three separate votes, changed existing rules and creating new ones regarding where and how industrial wind turbines can be built. ...
- We Should Be Free Because We Are Equal
Equality should not be a dirty word for libertarians since equality of liberty and equality before the law are in our intellectual DNA.
- Reed Talks Trade at Liberty Forum in Brazil
In April FEE president Lawrence W. Reed was a guest at Liberty Forum in Brazil, where he discussed the benefits of trade and the role of Internet. Tyler Cowen, the George Mason University economics professor and Marginal Revolution blogger, also participated.
- Business Roundtable Doesn’t Appear Serio ...
“In short, there isnât much of a constituency for deficit reduction. Sure, plenty of people and special-interest groups say that they are deeply worried about the deficit. But they are not lobbying for specific spending cuts or tax increases. They arenât marshaling their resources to defend poli ...
- Obama Invites Congressional Leaders to White H ...
“Facing an Aug. 2 deadline, Congress and the White House are stepping up face time to avert what the Treasury Department has called âcatastrophic economic and market consequencesâ of a default on the national debt. President Obama on Tuesday invited congressional leaders to the White House on Ju ...
- The Threat Is in the Spending
The U.S. government is close to hitting its debt ceiling, and while much is said about protecting the “full faith and credit” of the United States, this is a sideshow since all the government must do to avoid default is to meet interest payments. In all events, the lack of a plan to control gove ...
- Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
- Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
- Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...
- Journalists: How to get started with Twitter
If you haven’t yet found any value in using Twitter, here’s what you should consider. On the topic of WHY to get started, John Robinson (the editor of the News & Record, in Greensboro, North Carolina) wrote a very good piece for ASNE this week. If youâre not on Twitter, youâre making your job ...
- Tune up your skills this summer
Looking over my Google Analytics data today, I found that these are some of the most-visited pages on this blog: How to shoot video interviews Why does anyone major in journalism? A few words about digital audio recorders Recording phone calls: For reporters Now printable! Reporterâs Guid ...
- Exxon's Yellowstone oil spill shows pipeline risks
The environmental disaster that began unfolding last week when an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured in Montana and spilled an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River highlights the serious environmental risks associated with the oil industry's infrastructure -- and foreshadows the ...
- Is Georgia the new Arizona?
Since last year, Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 -- the state's restrictive immigration law -- has been a key lightning rod for the nation's immigration debate. Arizona is still roiling with controversy -- this week, activists are calling for a boycott of Major League Baseball's annual All-Star game ...
- Mississippi civil rights activist honored for ...
By Jonah Most, New America Media It was reading Malcolm X that convinced Chokwe Lumumba to go to law school. Malcolm X had wanted to be a lawyer, but his teachers discouraged him. As an undergraduate student at Kalamazoo College in Michigan in the late 1960s, Lumumba decided to be the lawyer ...
- Illegal campaign contributions spotlight Koch ...
As Americans prepared to celebrate their independence from a foreign power, the Federal Election Commission reached a settlement in a case involving a foreign corporation making thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to state-level political candidates over a four-year period. ...
- VOICES: Amazon's anti-tax crusade
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest When large companies complain about taxes, they are usually talking about levies they have to pay out of their own deep pockets. Amazon.com is engaged in a battle to make it easier for its customers to avoid paying their taxes -- their sales tax, that is, ...
- Deserve: the deadliest word
I hate the word “deserve” because lord save us all from what we “deserve”, but lately I find it hard to remember that one good person is worth saving, or that most people are just weak, not evil. The world will burn, in war, and famine, and revolution, and climate change and it will burn [...]
- I think the oligarchs are overplaying their hand
In particular the Greek “bailout” was a mistake. A horribly punitive measure, with virtually the entire “Socialist” party voting for it, it wasn’t a bailout of Greece, but a bailout of investors. As part of the response, the Greek ministry of finance was set alight. The oligarchs, by making ...
- One more note on the New York Gay Marriage, Cu ...
1) The left sells each other out for either small tactical gains, or nothing at all (hello national NARAL) all the time, so why shouldn’t the gays promise to help Cuomo in his next election for giving them gay marriage, even if it screws unions and helps an austerity governor? 2) The reason gays ...
- Basics: anyone who will sell you out is not on ...
Look, if a special interest that is nominally on the left is willing to sell out other parts of the left in order to get its little item, they are not on your side. Period. End of sentence. An alliance, coalition or ideological movement’s first and most important rule is solidarity: NEVER ...
- Less Cuomo Fellation please
Como’s still busy destroying unions and crushing standards of living in New York. I’m so pro-gay marriage I once didn’t talk to my father for 6 months because of an argument over it, but it is not the only issue, and it does not make Cuomo a good governor any more than any other single [...]
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
- PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
- China and the end of the end of history
Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...
- Anti-freeze spill knocks Subaru telescope out
An accident that spilled more than 100 litres of coolant has shut down the 8-metre Subaru telescope for at least two weeks. The telescope, Japan’s largest, is perched at the top of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea mountain, and its prime focus camera, which sits high above the main mirror, moves to track ...
- Mars Curiosity rover: targets narrowed to two
And then there were two: Gale and Eberswalde craters. Without any fanfare, NASA on Wednesday quietly mentioned on its Web site that the target destination for Curiosity, the $2.5 billion roving science laboratory, had been narrowed to two finalists. Gale Crater contains ancient lakebed depos ...
- Webb telescope caught in budget bill's crosshairs
The final launch of the space shuttle is set for later this week. But NASA's most important astronomy mission suddenly seems in danger of never leaving the ground. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), already in serious trouble on both sides of the Congressional aisle because of cost o ...
- Extreme weather, Saturn style
The Cassini Spacecraft has spotted one bad mutha shut-yo-mouth of a thunderboomer on the planet Saturn. The storm took up a good chunk of the planet's northern hemisphere (see picture). It was 10,000 kilometres across and 10,000 times stronger than anything seen here on earth. In fact, it was so ...
- EU parliament votes to allow restrictions on G ...
Posted on behalf of Barbara Casassus. The European Parliament yesterday voted overwhelmingly to give European Union (EU) countries wider powers to ban or restrict the cultivation of genetically modified crops without infringing international trade law. Altogether 548 MEPs voted in favour o ...
- The Next Boom Towns In The U.S.
What cities are best positioned to grow and prosper in the coming decade? To determine the next boom towns in the U.S., with the help of Mark Schill at the Praxis Strategy Group, we took the 52 largest metro areas in the country (those with populations exceeding 1 million) and ranked them based ...
- Honolulu: Mega Rail Project in a Micro City
An exorbitantly costly rapid transit heavy rail project has been proposed for the small Hawaiian island of Oahu, where the leading metropolis, Honolulu, ranks 53rd in population among U.S. cities, with less than 500,000 people. If the project moves forward it will be the world's only elevated he ...
- Australians Are Getting A Carbon Tax They Don’ ...
Within weeks, the Australian government is expected to announce a package of measures including a carbon tax to stimulate renewable energy sources and abate carbon emissions. Officials, activists and journalists around the world will hail Australia as a courageous and forward-looking country, re ...
- Living and Working in the 1099 Economy
We used to call it �Free Agent Nation.�� Now, it seems like the new term of art will be �The 1099 Economy.�� �While the names may change, they all point to a phenomenon of rising importance: the growing number of Americans who don�t have a �regular job� but instead work on individual contrac ...
- Drones on the Prairie
When the Base Realignment and Closure Commission was drawing up its list of military installations to close back in 2005, consultants assured the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, that its Air Force base would be spared. Days before the list was made public, though, word leaked out that ...
- Flood Berm Collapses at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
Via: AP: A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no w ...
- Greece: ‘A Sovereign Debt Crisis of Soph ...
Via: Telegraph: The essence of ancient Greek tragedy is that the audience knows it will end in disaster, but feels compelled to watch the horror unfold. And so it is with the modern version, a sovereign debt crisis of Sophoclean dimensions. Themes of the great dramatist’s finer works are all the ...
- Threat of $100 Billion Hit if U.S. Top Rating Lost
I definitely wouldn’t assume that the impact of a credit rating cut would be limited to $100 billion. I doubt there is any way to know what the impact will be because so many derivatives have been struck off the underlying debt. In other words, this $100 billion number may be just the tip of [...]
- Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
Via: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, whi ...
- Friend of British Prime Minister Found Dead in ...
Via: Belfast Telegraph: Detectives are hoping toxicology results will shed light on the death riddle of a senior Tory in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet. Christopher Shale, 56, a close friend of David Cameron, was discovered slumped in a cubicle in the backstage area on Sunday morning. The Pri ...
- The Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Never Going To En ...
In the past, there certainly have been governments that have gotten into trouble with debt, but what we are experiencing now is the first truly global sovereign debt crisis. There has never been a time in recorded history when virtually all of the governments of the world were ...
- Without Low Interest Rates, The U.S. Financial ...
Right now, interest rates are near historic lows. The U.S. government is able to borrow gigantic mountains of money for next to nothing. U.S. consumers are still able to get home loans, car loans and student loans at ridiculously low interest rates. When this low interest rat ...
- Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt
Every year when July 4th rolls around, Americans from coast to coast celebrate July 4th with cookouts, outdoor concerts and fireworks. We love celebrating Independence Day and yet we are deeply enslaved to debt. We like to think of ourselves as "free" and yet we have rolled up ...
- Will Barack Obama Use The 14th Amendment As A ...
As the deadline to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, many are now wondering if Barack Obama will try to go around Congress if a deal is not reached by August 2nd. In particular, a number of voices (including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) are now touting the 14th ...
- Shell Game
The entire U.S. financial system has become a gigantic shell game. While it is still in motion, a shell game can be mesmerizing to watch. But when it ends the consequences can be painful. So exactly what is a shell game? According to Wikipedia, a shell game "is portrayed as ...
- Missing Food : grain (or vegetables and fruits ...
VIDEO seen at : Missing Food: The Case of Postharvest Grain Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa http://youtu.be/4JGC7peGBwo Reducing post-harvest losses is an essential pillar in a successful food strategy. —————- MY COMMENT (Willem Van Cotthem) So is offering seeds of vegetables … Continue reading →
- L’accaparement mondial des terres agrico ...
Les fonds de pension : des acteurs clés dans l’accaparement mondial des terres agricoles Les acquisitions de terres agricoles à grande échelle provoquent conflits et controverses dans le monde entier. Et pourtant, les fonds continuent à déferler sur les terres … Continue reading →
- ‘Seed Mothers’ identifying, collec ...
Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56332 INDIA ‘Seed-Mothers’ Confront Climate Insecurity By Manipadma Jena BHUBANESWAR, India, Jul 1, 2011 (IPS) – In eastern Orissa stateâs tribal hinterlands about 200 âseed-mothersâ are on mission mode – identifying, collecting and conserving traditi ...
- New book on Urban School Gardens (City Farmer ...
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/06/12/roots-and-research-in-urban-school-gardens/ Roots and Research in Urban School Gardens Linked by Michael Levenston By Veronica Gaylie Peter Lang Publishing June 15, 2011 http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Research-Urban-School-Gardens/dp/1433115255/ref=nt ...
- City malnutrition drops as more affordable fru ...
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/06/13/fao-urban-horticulture-in-the-congo-reaps-400-million-for-small-growers/ FAO â Urban horticulture in the Congo reaps $400 million for small growers Linked by Michael Levenston How a project for development of urban and peri-urban horticulture in fi ...
- No WikiLove for Canada Day
Wikipedia is working on a new feature to allow visitors to express appreciation for the poor beleaguered editors. Visitors will have the opportunity to click on a Wikilove icon (a heart), which will allow them to send a message of appreciation. Seems that editors get a lot of ...
- RIM chaos overestimated, but . . .
By Mark Evans With all the talk about Research in Motion’s financial and marketshare struggles, many people tend to overlook the fact that it is still a wireless behemoth, albeit one with intense and growing competition. But it's not just another “a Nortel.”. Nevertheless, RIM needs to mak ...
- The Conservatives’ Homegrown censorship
By Frank Moher We can now begin to see how the Conservative government intends to use its majority to chop arts funding in Canada, particularly to any artistic expression it doesn't like or agree with. In the short term at least, it will be a death by a thousand cuts. This ...
- Bill Blair’s G20 alibi
By Alison@Creekside An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report "Caught in the Act," sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a year ago. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, as we have previously he ...
- Potter too much
By Rachel Krueger As though the tenterhooks weren’t tight enough for Harry Potter 7.2: The One Where It Actually Ends, the Rowling megalith taunted its fans last week with the mysterious offer of . . . Pottermore. Pottermore, the powers promised, was a Thing That Was Not A Book But Was Sti ...
- FabFi on the front page of New York Times
Here’s an update in an attempt to counteract the thoroughly depressing news of Tim going silent. (Anyone who knows Tim in person knows that you can’t actually silence him; he’s still ranting but we’ve turned off the blog-mike). With Kanani’s help, I’ve put this post in Babatim format. This wee ...
- There’s Fire
Fighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered. Â In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
- Where There Is Smoke
In the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...
- Leadership 101
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is never pleasant to observe, especially when it is an American President doing the snatching. President Obama was running strong: 1. He just announced The Dream Team taking over the Afghan campaign, 2. He launched a unilateral direct action mission d ...
- May Day
The ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) has taken an unusual step by issuing a warning to all internationals, alerting of coordinated “spectacular attacks”, kidnapping of internationals, suicide bombings, and all manner of general mayhem to kick off  Sunday, 1 May.  To the bes ...
- More From THE ZOMBIE Files —— A MU ...
From the “X-Files” of Dr. Patricia M. Jordan, DVM comes this incredible snippet dateline 2009: ST-246 Used to Treat Complications From Exposure to Recombinant Vaccinia Virus Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:31am EDT http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v8/38a9/0/0/%2a/v;44306;0-0;0;38919074;1627-170/40;0/0/0;;~o ...
- Jews Against Zionism and Zionists. (JAZZ)
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaliebermann.cfm THE ROLE OF ZIONISM IN THE HOLOCAUST Article by Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann – Australia “Spiritually and Physically Responsible ” From its’ inception, many rabbis warned of the potential dangers of Zionism and open ...
- Zombie Watch Update
Here we go. The evidence continues to mount. Published on Deccan Chronicle (http://www.deccanchronicle.com) � Mutant rabies, flu viruses could lead to havoc June 25: The rabies season has just receded. And it�s time now for the human influenza or common cold to make our lives miserable. Rabies ...
- Khazarian Satanic Porn — Plumbing New Depths
In this public You-tube clip, which is a digital recording of a VERY PUBLIC PRESENTATION at the 2011 Conspiracy Conference, “Investigative Reporter” and consort of Leonard Horowitz, Sherri Kane maliciously attacked ex-VietNam war veteran Timothy White by accusing him of being a felon, rapists, a ...
- Is A. True Ott a “Jew-Hating Man”, ...
In an e-mail to me in August 2010, Khazarian Blue-Blood Jew Leonard G. Horowitz wrote: “How STUPID of you ——- to EXPOSE YOURSELF AS A JEW-HATING MAN!!!”  What exactly “exposed” me? Merely using the term “Khazar” and “Goy” in an earlier post to his sweetie Sherri Kane in describing her and m ...
- Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
- Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
- Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen. In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
- Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here̵ ...
Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
- Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...
- Insulation ROI- Be Energy Smart and Money Wize
Misunderstood Payback Periods of Proper Insulation: This is a huge mistake people make. I had a consumer recently tell me that 2 years was too long to get all his money back. If he understood Payback periods, he’d understand that he was turning down a 50% return on his money. Now, investments th ...
- Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...
Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...
- six neighborhood factors that affect the envir ...
The Greenest Building Is The One That’s Already Built ⦠Sometimes Posted June 20, 2011 by Kaid Benfield copied from: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/kaidbenfield/26182/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context?utm_source=scc_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Iâ ...
- Estimating Tips for Spray Foam Window/Door Sealant
While Working on an Material Estimate for Installing 10 Replacement Windows. I wanted to share this Information on from Dow Great Stuff. Sizes and Estimated Yields for GREAT STUFF PRO™ Window & Door Insulating Foam Sealant Can Size, oz (g) Delivery No. of Windows(1) 20 (567) Reusable Straw 6-9 2 ...
- Energy Efficiency Key to Reducing the Need to ...
report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress ((13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals)) U.S. states lead on energy efficiency, lower utility b ...
- Will Capitalism Leave Lasting Scars?
In a prior blog “Can Human Nature Be Repaired?” (http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/06/30/can-human-nature-be-repaired/), I posed the question whether the ravages of capitalism leave enduring scars that make it impossible to implement more egalitarian political and economic systems f ...
- Corporatizing Global Food Production
A UK company started in 1997 called Emergent Asset Management claims to be the largest speculative fund investing in African industrial agriculture. See http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/OI_EAM_Brief_1.pdf. It uses private equity to take control of large tracts ...
- Speculating with our Food
The Chicago Mercantile (commodities) Exchange In 2011, “food derivative” speculation has replaced financial derivatives as the hot new investment promoted by major investment banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. According to new research from the World Development Movement, the same banks tha ...
- Can Human Nature be Repaired?
Racehorse trainer Anti-capitalist John Strachey touches briefly on the Human Nature debate in his 1933 Coming Struggle for Power (see “Is Capitalism Doomed?” http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2010/08/14/is-capitalism-doomed/). He makes the observation that despite unimaginable technologic ...
- The Biology of Human Behavior
Brain synapses In my last blog, I discussed Marx and Engels response to the four specific character flaws that the ruling elite put forward in opposing alternative political/economic systems, such as socialism and participatory democracy. I look at contemporary research into human behavior and w ...
- MichaelMoore.com Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable Al ...
Wikileaks Cable Allegedly Leaked by Bradley Manning Caught Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Discussing Outsourcing to India That May Have Cost Manning's OWN FATHER His Job "The afternoon I reached Brian Manning, he was at home in Oklahoma City, in a room in his ranch house that Bradley had ...
- Glenn Beck on Muslims, Obama and Michael Moore ...
From Glenn Beck's radio show, June 2, 2011: ... PAT GRAY: How does a guy who immigrated here from -- was it India? I think India. He's got Muslim parenthood and he comes here and he enjoys incredible success. The guy's a national television host and a best-selling author. He probably makes ...
- In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...
On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...
- TOM MORELLO : THE NIGHTWATCHMAN TO RELEASE UNI ...
FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE TITLE TRACK “UNION TOWN” AVAILABLE NOW NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM, WORLD WIDE REBEL SONGS, TO BE RELEASED LATE SUMMER April 28th, 2011 -- New York, New York -- Tom Morello is set to release Union Town via New West Records digitally on May 17th with a physical CD and Vinyl rel ...
- New York Times: Claims Gaddafi Tried to Assass ...
From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... In the weeks following Sadat's death, newspapers and television reported a barrage of Qaddafi death threats to Reagan and senior Administration officials. Secret Service protection was ordered for the President's ...
- The GOP turns its back on Reagan
Much of what President Barack Obama knows about dealing with Republicans he learned at Harvard. And most of it is wrong. As David Remnick tells the story in his masterful book "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama," the president owes his election as editor of the Harvard Law Review ...
- Battle of the embarrassing GOP spouses
Did you read that wonderful Washington Post profile of Rep. Michele Bachmann's husband Marcus? Breaking: Guy really hates gay people, just like his wife, who is currently catching up to Mitt Romney in the polls. In order to justify writing about him, there is some talk about how he calls hims ...
- The GOP field narrows quickly
Sure, it's still early, but the outlines of the GOP field are getting clearer. Newt Gingrich, the one-time history professor, is history. His campaign debt alone will sink him; no need to bring up his large lines of credit at Tiffany's. Steve Kornacki says the campaign of the struggling chari ...
- Lindsey Graham: Gadhafi is like Hitler
Sen. Lindsey Graham took to the Senate floor last night to warn first that Moammar Gadhafi is Hitler:
- When health insurance isn't enough
While the contest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is already revolving around conservative-themed attacks on "Obamacare," back when the healthcare bill was being legislated, the most important debate was within the Democratic Party, which held large majorities in both houses o ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- Where Do You Plug In?
A signal that plug-in transportation isn’t just for California any more, the Electric Power Research Institute brings its Plug-In Conference and Exposition to the East Coast on July 18, 2011. In its 4th year, the conference makes one giant leap out of its comfort zone in California and heads all ...
- Natural Gas Taking America's Electric Power Se ...
Many view natural gas as the key feature of the United States' new energy economy.� Whether this is true or not is still to be determined.� What is evident, though, is that natural gas is a growing energy resource for America.� According to the latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Admi ...
- Audio Archive: Fukushima and Nuclear Power
�Listen to The Energy Collective's panelists as they seek answers to questions raised after Fukushima and discuss nuclear power's role in our energy future. The panel covered topics as wide ranging as the carbon cost of countries' choice to abandon nuclear, what we know about future of nuclear p ...
- March of the Elites: Why Grassroots Can't Save ...
The campaign to avert cataclysmic climate change soldiers on. Despite an aggressive global economic crisis that unequivocally stole some wind from the sails of climate action, the movement lingers, organizing marches and rallies for the coming climate revolution. But action on the climate-energy ...
- Dust Storm Gives Phoenix A Preview of Mega-Dro ...
This blog before noted that over the last decade the Southwest U.S. has suffered the sharpest temperature increase on the continent. Brad Johnson now reports�on a�dust storm up to 50 miles wide and a mile high that �descended on the Phoenix area.
- US Senate drops Libya resolution to focus on n ...
The US Senate hastily dropped plans to vote Tuesday on a symbolic resolution authorising the US role in Libya amid a Republican insurrection to demand action instead on the national debt. Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority leader, said: “We’ve agreed, notwithstanding the broad support fo ...
- 10,000 civilians sentenced in Egypt military trial
At least 10,000 civilians have been sentenced in military trials since Egypt’s January 25 uprising that ousted president Hosny Mubarak, a human rights group said Monday. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to reconsider, saying the ac ...
- France’s anti-US feeling revived over ex-IMF chief
The stunning reversals in the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a putative French presidential candidate, have reawakened a dormant anti-Americanism here, fueled by a sense that the raw, media-driven culture of the United States has undermined justice and fair play. There was shock i ...
- Russia accuses Nato of ‘expanding’ UN Libya re ...
The differences between Nato and Russia over the West’s bombing campaign in Libya were laid bare yesterday after Moscow accused the alliance of interpreting a UN resolution on military intervention to suit its own ends. Tense talks between Nato and Russian officials on the sidelines of a Nato-Ru ...
- Geert Wilders pushes Netherlands to class immi ...
Geert Wilders and his anti-Islam Freedom Party are pushing the Dutch government to class the grandchildren of immigrants as “allochtonen” or non-native. Under current law the third generation children of immigrants in Holland are classified as Dutch, in terms of government statistics and entitle ...
- Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
- Natural Acne Remedies
There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
- Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- North Korea Bribed Pakistani Officials To Obta ...
Photo : Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan helped Pakistan to distribute sensitive nuclear material and technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea from 1987â2002. Belfer Center Pakistanâs Nuclear-Bomb Maker Says North Korea Paid Bribes For Know-How -- Washington Post The founder of Pakistanâs nuclea ...
- Nintendo’s Wii U to launch after April 1st, 2012
Nintendo has been cagey on the release timing of its recently announced Wii U console, except to say that it would come out sometime in 2012. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime let slip a more solid date earlier today. “This is a device that will launch in 2012, after April 1st,” Fi ...
- Excited About Facebook-Skype Integration? MySp ...
Man behind MySpace Tom Anderson is one of the biggest promoter of Google Plus now, and it is evident from his Google Plus profil e. He has some interesting views on Facebook-Skype Integration. Tom says that MySpace did that in 2007 but got no success, and he expects this deal to be better with ...
- Casey Anthony Has A Bright Future Ahead Of Her
Welcome to America folks, where, when you get off the hook for murdering your own kids, you actually get offered work. Makes sense, doesn't it? In the case of Casey Anthony, that work involves having sex on camera. For money. Hours after she was found not guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daug ...
- Obama Now Tweets, But Is His Message Getting A ...
Yesterday, President Obama held the first ever White House Twitter Town Hall meeting. The President fielded questions from Twitter users (asked in the site's standard 140 characters or less). But the President's answers were anything but concise. In fact, he responded to participants' questions ...
- ATTs Plight is our Plight
We need to shift to a funding model that doesn't work at cross purposes with the Internet's generativity. This generativity comes from decoupling our ability to exchange bits from what we create using those bits. It requires that we fund the whole, i.e. infrastructure, rather than having to make ...
- More potential prior art for Lodsys patents
Patents - Note - I really like this first reference, but have not had the time to compare it to the claim charts. 3,878,371 ... Non-Patent Literature - (I currently have not found these references, but would like to see them.) "Tiny Computer," Popular Science, Feb. 1977, p. 75 "Infopac I1/2 ...
- And Speaking of the Inalienable Right to the P ...
The bill, which will allow the government to obtain injunctions against domain names hosting allegedly copyright-infringing or trademark-infringing material, and to have those domain names deleted from the Internet's databases, represents a serious assault on the fundamental principles that have ...
- Dozens of law professors: PROTECT IP Act is un ...
An ideologically diverse group of 90 law professors has signed a letter opposing the PROTECT IP Act, the Hollywood-backed copyright enforcement/Internet blacklist legislation now working its way through Congress. The letter argues that its domain-blocking provisions amount to Internet censorship ...
- Lodsys: DriveTime Automotive Group Adds Another DJ
Every new declaratory judgment action can be considered a small bit of good news for iOS developers. No single DJ will cost Lodsys enough to materially impact its profitability, but they will add up. It is very important to the development community that the Lodsys model, asserting patents agai ...
- Afghanistan, logistics, geopolitics, war, peace
The WaPo's Craig Whitlock has an informative piece in today's paper about the many continuing challenges the U.S. military has faced as it attempted to provide logistic support to the "surged" U.S. troop presence in very distant Afghanistan. Supplying these troops is particularly hard, due to t ...
- Speaking about out recent Gaza/Cairo trip: Cha ...
Bill the spouse and I will be speaking about our recent trip to Gaza and Cairo at an event sponsored by my Quaker meeting in Charlottesville, on July 11. Details are here.
- My piece on Egypt and Gaza, at ME Channel
... is here. I rather like the title they put on it, "Tahrir's journey to Palestine". In fact, the journey that the "spirit of of the Tahrir uprising" has to make before it gets to Palestine is just about as long and difficult as the journey that anyone needs to make to get from the outside wor ...
- Reactions to Gaza Flotilla 2
Nine boats of siege-busting 'Freedom Rider' activists are now gathering in the Mediterranean, preparing to challenge the longrunning siege that is one of the main tools through which Israel continues to stifle the lives and livelihoods of all of Gaza's 1.6 million people. An act of collective p ...
- Sally Sockpuppet and her friends
Well, just as I thought. Commenter "Sally J" who was trying to argue that she'd "visited Gaza with a volunteer church group" just in April and that nearly everything there is fine... turns out to be one of the multiple-personality sock-puppets who visit the blog from time to time. Here is a s ...
- Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
- (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?
That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
- Obama Ready to Go Big on Budget Deal?
Every major newspaper is reporting tonight that Barack Obama has been holding secret post-golf meetings with John Boehner and is now pushing for a much larger budget deal than anyone has been talking about so far. Here's the Washington Post: At a meeting with top House and Senate leaders ...
- Paul Broun's Budget
Republican congressman Paul Broun — the same Paul Broun who doesn't know if Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen but does know that he's a socialist — the same Paul Broun who believes the federal government plans to force us all to eat more fruits and vegetables — yes, that Paul Broun — serves up ...
- Quote of the Day: Bill Clinton on Voter ID Laws
From Bill Clinton, talking to a group of college students about the relentless two-decade Republican effort to restrict voting among minorities, the young, and felons who have done their time and finished their probation: One of the most pervasive political movements going on outside Wash ...
- Warming Up to Cool Light
Farhad Manjoo writes in Slate today about the holy grail in indoor lighting: an energy-efficient bulb that's dimmable and produces nice warm light. It comes from a company called Switch, and it all sounds very nice. But I found this parenthetical pretty interesting: (The 60- and 75-watt-a ...
- No, Let's Not Slash the Minimum Wage
Karl Smith agrees with Casey Mulligan that reducing the minimum wage would boost the job market: I understand that there are sophisticated studies showing a limited impact of the minimum wage on employment. My judgment is impacted by those studies. Nonetheless, they are climbing a steep h ...
- Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.
- Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...
Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.
- Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...
- History warns of civilisation-crushing climate ...
After giant sandworms cause an argument between me and my girlfriend about whether climate-related civilisation-wide disasters are possible, reviewing scientific evidence of such events through history force me to concede that they are.
- Vikings’ Greenland demise tells climate tale
Two civilisations – including the Vikings – disappeared from Greenland at times of rapid climate change William D'Andrea of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and colleagues find, but understanding how those changes happens is more important than the impact they had, he asserts.
- TEMLA shows higher diagnostic yield than EBUS ...
In the largest reported series yet to compare transcervical extended mediastinal lymphadenectomy (TEMLA) with endoscopic and surgical primary staging and restaging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), TEMLA showed a significantly higher diagnostic yield, according to research presented at the ...
- Chips hold the key to understanding the human ...
Chips based on ARM processor technology will be linked together to simulate the highly-complex workings of the brain, whose functionality derives from networks of billions of interacting, highly-connected neurons. read more
- Gray whales likely survived the Ice Ages by ch ...
Gray whales survived many cycles of global cooling and warming over the past few million years, likely by exploiting a more varied diet than they do today, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, and Smithsonian Institution paleontologists. read more
- Beauty is in the medial orbito-frontal cortex ...
A region at the front of the brain 'lights up' when we experience beauty in a piece of art or a musical excerpt, according to new research funded by the Wellcome Trust. The study, published today in the open access journal PLoS One, suggests that the one characteristic that all works of art, wha ...
- Discovery of why sunburn hurts could lead to n ...
Researchers at King's College London have found a molecule in the body which controls sensitivity to pain from UVB irradiation, identifying it as a new target for medicines to treat pain caused by other common inflammatory conditions such as arthritis. read more
- Carbon tax in Australia in 2011
Australia is set to introduce a carbon tax (details to be released on Sunday 10 July 2011). This post is the place to discuss this policy — the good and the bad. A description, from the Australian Parliamentary Library: A carbon tax is a tax on energy sources which emit carbon dioxide. It is a [...]
- Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrate ...
A common lament of those analysts wishing to get to grips with the real-world performance of solar thermal power plants has been, well… an absence of data. Trainer noted, in ‘Solar Thermal Questions‘: It would be great to get some actual data on their year round performance. I have found it fien ...
- Open Thread 17
The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
- Sustainable energy choices for the 21st Centur ...
Climate change and sustainability of the global human enterprise are two of the most critical issues of the 21st Century. If we are to tackle these problems effectively, we need to make prudent, evidence-based choices about energy. This is the story told by this short (2 min, 35 sec) animated vi ...
- Clearing up the climate debate
The Conversation is a recently established website set up to provide an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the Australian university and research sector. Over the last few weeks, a group of climate scientists and academics from other relevant disciplines, have been ...
- Alison Owings: The Damaging Three Words of the ...
Alison Owings: The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence: [huffingtonpost.com] "Say what? From the elegantly-quotable Jefferson? Yes. '... the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.' While Na ...
- Filip Spagnoli: Inattentional Blindness and th ...
Inattentional Blindness and the Persistence of Human Rights Violations | P.a.p.-Blog | Human Rights Etc.: "Why do human rights violations endure? Because we don’t see them. We often suffer from so-called inattentional blindness, the phenomenon of not being able to perceive things that are in pla ...
- American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla ...
Gilad Atzmon - Writings - American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla Interview
- Two weeks ahead of release, jailed editor sudd ...
Two weeks ahead of release, jailed editor suddenly facing possible death penalty or life imprisonment - Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders is extremely disturbed by the Sudanese justice system’s decision to keep Abuzar Ali Al-Amin, the deputy editor of the opposition daily Rai A ...
- Repressing Support For Palestine’s Basic Human ...
By TheAngryindian -�06.30.2011 Editor's Note: As a supplement to the material raised in this editorial, please review,�Google Warns of Escalating Web Censorship - Mobiledia,�How Israeli hasbara�works - Blog - The Arabist�and,�Spying On Juan Cole | ThinkProgress �Be nice to the whites, ...
- Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
- Jim DeMint – Fuck You
Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
- Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
“We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
- Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
- Politifact – Jon Stewart Was Right
How hard did your dishonest organization have to twist into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.
- Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15
Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
- Press Inquiries
All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
- “Air Flotilla” successful in expos ...
Israeli authorities deployed hundreds of policeman in order to stop and deport pro-Palestinian visitors. Minister of tourism announced that “good tourists” will be greeted with flowers Panic. There is no other way to describe the Israeli reaction to a plan by a few activistsâno more ...
- Update: Ministers and general did not honor Lior
As reported earlier this week, Dov Lior = a leading rabbi who supported the gentile slaying guidebook, Torat Ha’Melekh – received honors yesterday by the local council of Hebrnon Mountain. However, the two ministers (Moshe “Boogie” Ya’alon and Eli Yishai) and general (Avi Mirahi) who were suppos ...
- 14,000 new settlers in last 12 months
14,000 new Jewish settlers moved to the West Bank the last year alone – not including East Jerusalem. Total number today, IBA radio reported, is 334,000. The settlements are not an obstacle to peace, Israel says. (via @notidfspokesperson)
- What about the Jews on the US boat to Gaza?
For Jews on board the US boat to Gaza, the Audacity of Hope, their decision to sail to Gaza was a concrete action marking their divergence from mainstream American Jewish allegiance of the Israeli policies. Jewish presence in the flotilla represents growing dissatisfaction among American Jews wi ...
- “Sexy Israel” getting treatment fo ...
(Update below: Actress is Israeli and appears to have been commissioned on Hasbara gig) I’m somewhat of a fool for excruciatingly bad Hasbara videos, but this one surely takes the cake: From this video, we learn “Israel” is massively paranoid, even somewhat hysterical, believing edited second-ha ...
- Citizenship – Our One True Love
Maybe citizenship wasn’t meant to be this easy. That cradle of democracy – early Greece – wouldn’t know what to make of citizenship today. To be sure, it was a citizenship of elitism, but the price for belonging to such a unique group was steep. You were automatically expected to fight in wars. ...
- … Then Again
The last couple of days have been filled with answering emails, telephone calls and holding private discussions with folks who politely took me to task over my last post stating that I wouldn’t be blogging for the summer. I have three books, all half done, that I want to finish writing and the n ...
- Invincible Summer
As a wonderful Bloc MP, she was one of my favourite champions in Parliament. We served on the Status of Women committee together for a couple of years and I was increasingly refined by her advocacy and resolute spirit. When she contacted me on Facebook last week, asking me to be her friend, a wa ...
- My Graduation
He just turned 14 this past week and last night was his Grade 8 graduation – high school now beckons. LIke every other parent present, I watched as my son Ater strode across the stage to accept his diploma to the cheering of his classmates. Closing in on six feet in height, he beamed from [...]
- Strawberry Fields
What does a riding association do when its chosen member lost in a recent election? Historically there have been numerous answers – hold fundraisers, find a leader to follow, begin organizing immediately for the next campaign. This list is correct, as far as it goes. Perhaps Liberals, and others ...
- Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
- Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
- Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
- Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
- Knitting science
Sitting in a meeting on informal science education recently, I was intrigued to see a respected academic working on her knitting. And she wasn’t the only one. Now I may have had a something of a sheltered life, but in over twenty years of attending scientific conferences and workshops, I thi ...
- Smart science, biopunks and nanoparticles – Au ...
I‘m going to be taking a break from 2020 Science over the next few weeks, as I finally make the move with my family from DC to Ann Arbor. But rather than let the blog languish, I thought I would use this as an opportunity to revisit some of my old posts. So through August, [...]
- Smart science for the 21st century
In February 2008, the National Academy of Engineering launched 14 grand challenges for engineering. These were the inspiration for this post, but rather than focus on the challenges themselves, I thought it would be interesting to consider how science and technology are going to help address th ...
- I’m breathing in nanoparticles, so why aren’t ...
This was based on a piece I originally wrote for Nano Today – the blog was a slightly extended version of what was published. Although it was written two years ago, it’s still surprising how few people realize that breathing in nanoparticles is an everyday fact of life, and that to make sense ...
- Enough meetings already!
I couldn’t resist reposting this piece, as it captured so well my frustration at the time of spending so much time in meetings – usually for someone else’s benefit. Sadly, I didn’t learn the error of my ways – my travel schedule has, if anything, got worse since then! Originally posted May 8 2 ...
- FOCUS: The New Antiwar Republicans
Intro: "Three presidential candidates want a faster exit from Afghanistan, and so does much of the public. Jill Lawrence on why their 2012 rhetoric will boost the pressure on Obama." (photos: From left: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Rich Schultz/AP, Jim Cole/AP) {rsnslider}{wrap height="4 ...
- FOCUS: The New Antiwar Republicans
Intro: "Three presidential candidates want a faster exit from Afghanistan, and so does much of the public. Jill Lawrence on why their 2012 rhetoric will boost the pressure on Obama." (photos: From left: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Rich Schultz/AP, Jim Cole/AP) {rsnslider}{wrap height="4 ...
- Oil and Gas Drilling Surges Despite Increased ...
Nicholas Kusnetz reports: "Energy companies have spent the last couple of years fighting off added government regulation, saying red tape is slowing development. But recent data show that the pace of drilling is just short of the 20-year high it reached before the recession." The Wilmington r ...
- Oil and Gas Drilling Surges Despite Increased ...
Nicholas Kusnetz reports: "Energy companies have spent the last couple of years fighting off added government regulation, saying red tape is slowing development. But recent data show that the pace of drilling is just short of the 20-year high it reached before the recession." The Wilmington r ...
- Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President
Chris Hedges writes: "When I asked Nader, who mounted campaigns for the presidency in 2000, 2004 and 2008, if he would consider running again, he answered that it was 'very unlikely. You have millions of people who say run, run, run,' he said. 'Then you put yourself out there and find they are v ...
- No Surprises from the War-Makers!
Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
- In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...
- Money for Our Communities, Not for War!
Take Action! It’s very encouraging that the US Conference of Mayors just passed a strong resolution initiated by CODEPINK for bringing our “war dollars home” (read press release or NY Times article on this). Unfortunately, later this week the House of Representatives is poised to pass the Defens ...
- Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
“I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
- Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
- Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
- Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
- New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...
- Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 7, 2011
==== U.S. Must End Its Illegal War In Libya Now: Dennis Kucinich Ex-NATO Chief Robertson Blusters On 110-Day Libyan War NATO Officials To Meet Libyan Rebel Leader Russia Accuses NATO Of Obstructing Political Negotiations In Libya Libyan Family Takes Legal Action Against NATO For Killing Relative ...
- Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes D ...
***** Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO news: July 6, 2011 ***** Stop NATO July 7, 2011 Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare Rick Rozoff Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aer ...
- Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO news: July 6, 2011
==== NATO’s Air War In Libya: Over 14,000 Air Missions, 5,285 Strike Sorties NATO Model In Libya: Destroy The Country, Let Others Do The Dirty Work Should Have Seen It Coming: South Africans Rally Against NATO’s Libyan War British Reaper Drone Attack Kills Four Afghan Civilians France, Germany, ...
- European Missile System: NATO Not Prepared To ...
***** Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO News: July 5, 2011 ***** http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/05/52814183.html Voice of Russia July 5, 2011 NATO is not prepared to compromise John Robles Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to ...
- Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO News: July 5, 2011
==== Russia, NATO Clash Over Libya Campaign NATO Ground Operation In Libya Threat To Region: Russia NATO’s Libyan Air War: 13,873 Missions, 5,229 Combat Sorties Video And Text: U.S. Star Wars Outpost In Britain Angers Anti-War Activists 28th Australian Soldier Killed In Afghanistan Afghan War: N ...
- Massive 50 Mile Wide Dust Storm Swells Across ...
The Intel Hub July 6, 2011 A massive 50 mile wide dust storm swarmed across Arizona! BCS National Championship Tickets Tournament Of Roses Parade Tickets Jersey Boys Tickets Cirque Du Soleil Tickets Boston Celtics Tickets var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":};
- Magnitude-7.6 quake shakes Kermadec Islands In ...
Associated Press July 6, 2011 NEW YORK A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake rattled New Zealand’s remote Kermadec Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It triggered a small tsunami that had New Zealand bracing for high waves. The volcanic Kermadec Island peaks are a r ...
- Brian D. Hill Of USWGO Interviews Jim Tucker: ...
YouTube July 6, 2011 Brian D. Hill of USWGO interviews Jim Tucker, a veteran Bilderberg hunter, that works for the American Free Press. Jim Tucker talks about the Bilderberg Groups secret meetings. Jim also mentions the war in Libya and what the elite are planning for their world government agen ...
- DHS: Prepare For Terror Attacks With Body Cavi ...
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas July 6, 2011 As if the war on terror is not ridiculous enough, considering the fact that a persons chance of being in a terror attack are slimmer than getting hit by a bolt of lightning, DHS is now once again ramping up the fear. The new threat? Al-CIA-Duh body [...]
- Shepard Ambellas: A Call For Writers
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas July 6, 2011 The Intel Hub is now scouting for talented writers to volunteer to write articles for the website. If you are a talented writer and want major worldwide exposure contact shepard@theintelhub.com for more details. Knowledge is power, help us get the word ...
- BART Officers Kill Man at San Francisco Train ...
by Bryan Gerhart July 6 2011 As of Sunday night, two men have died at the hands of BART police in less than three years. At 9:34 p.m. on July 3, two officers responded to a call about a man with an open bottle of alcohol at San Francisco’s Civic Center station. Eleven minutes later [...]
- Alert: FBI has reasons to track you, and they ...
On July 2nd, NBC Nightly News aired a new piece on the issue of the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices by law enforcement featuring Yasir Afifi: Here is the extended interview with Yasir Afifi: And here is an extremely relevant background report on government spying, released in December 2 ...
- South Africa: Metalworkers Demonstrate As Stri ...
Radio France Internationale (Paris) by Jean-Jacques Cornish 5 July 2011 South Africa’s strike season has begun with thousands of engineering and metalworkers taking to the streets of the country’s main cities in support of wage demands. Refineries were set to stop work Tuesday, with negotiations ...
- Prisoners Across at Least 6 California Prisons ...
Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition—July 5th, 2011 Strike Could Involve Thousands of Prisoners Oakland— More than 100 hours into an indefinite hunger strike started at Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit, prisoners in at least 6 state prisons have joined in, with participatio ...
- “Urgent Call to the people of Greece and ...
Statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Several boats that are part of Freedom Flotilla Two – Stay Human have been detained and prohibited to sail by the Greek Coast Guard, including the U.S., Canadian and Spanish Boats to Gaza, and the Greek government has prohibited an ...
- Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
- One for the Women
It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
- Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
- Slander vs. Sanity
Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
- My goodness, Susan, but you sure take a lot of ...
And I do! But only to make up for the days I don't take off. I am off work until Monday a.m. and will miss you horribly, but I trust you'll go out and live a fruitful few days, and then toddle on back here. I intend to do that.
- Everyone talks about the weather...
...and the city of Hartford is doing something about it. The city has opened cooling centers -- air-conditioned public spaces for any one who needs it. You can get a list here. Flickr photo
- Even playing Aung San Suu Kyi in a movie can g ...
Michelle Yeoh, of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," was deported from Burma recently over her role in an upcoming film about the life of the Nobel prize winner. The movie comes out later this year. And thanks, Cynical, for the link. Reuters photo
- Twitter town hall! Ask Pres. Obama
At 2 p.m. EDT, you can #AskObama whatever you want, on Twitter. You can find out more here. The event will be live-streamed here. Reuters photo
- Today in Courtroom 3B...
...things will be quiet, as there's no court today, but for your edification, please read the following plaintiff's motion from last week: 7-1-11 Plaintiff's Motion for Sanctions.pdf as well as the document in question: � 1969 BYLAWS OF MEDICAL STAFF.pdf� Pay particular attention to page 30, ...
- Three Reasons the Casey Anthony Jury Made the ...
25 year-old Casey Anthony was found not guilty Tuesday on charges of killing 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Though a controversial verdict with many, my initial thoughts reveal the jury's decision may have been proper.Contributor: Jeff Briscoe Published: Jul 06, 2011
- Quote Roundup: Greenville, S.C., Reacts to Cas ...
It is sad that no one will ever know the truth of how Caylee Anthony really left this world. The trial of her mother, Casey Anthony, became a media frenzy ending with her acquittal on murder and abuse charges.Contributor: Sophie Walton Published: Jul 06, 2011
- One Giant Leap for Girl-Kind: Memories of the ...
Because of the space shuttle program, for the first time as a girl, I saw women ascending to the heavens -- and one who never came back.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jul 06, 2011
- Jury Ignores Key Facts in Casey Anthony Verdict
A Florida jury found Casey Anthony not guilty of first -egree murder in the death of her daughter Caylee. While Casey was all smiles after the day's proceedings were over, her sentence is not the victory she thinks it is.Contributor: whitney levon Published: Jul 06, 2011
- Sarah Jessica Parker Tied for First on Forbes' ...
Sarah Jessica Parker wasn't seen much onscreen this past year, and hasn't been seen much outside of the "Sex and the City" franchise. Yet Forbes has her tied with Angelina Jolie as the No. 1 highest-paid actress in Hollywood this past year.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Jul 06, 2011
- An Israeli Biocomputer Can Now Detect Multiple ...
Wouldn’t it be easier to deal with disease if our bodies just fixed themselves? That’s asking quite a bit from our physiologies, but Israeli researchers are working on tiny nano-computers that could do the job for us. They envision tiny machines made of biomolecules that autonomously troll the ...
- Glasses Packed With Smartphone Tech Could Help ...
Glasses have been passively correcting human vision for centuries, using tricks of light to compensate for various visual impairments. But there are some conditions--like age-related macular degeneration--that simple lenses can’t correct. So Oxford University researchers are getting proactive w ...
- House Subcommittee's Budget Bill Puts Most Pow ...
Lawmakers working on next year’s federal finances have taken the ax to the James Webb Space Telescope. That’s right, NASA’s next-generation space telescope, the successor to Hubble and the space agency’s biggest post-shuttle project, may be killed. To be clear, there are many more steps in the ...
- Lab Builds a Fully Functioning Artificial Smal ...
California researchers have created a tissue-engineered small-scale small intestine in mice, a breakthrough for regenerative medicine and a step toward growing new intestines for humans. The process re-creates all the layers of cells that make up a functioning intestine. Tissue engineering, whi ...
- The Science of Gaydar: How Ovulation and Sexy ...
Madam, your gaydar is beeping On a scale of 1 to George Michael, I’d put my gaydar at about 7. But evidently my so-so ability to spot a gay man sharpens close to when I’m ovulating, or if I’ve recently imagined myself in a romantic situation, according to a series of studies conducted at the Un ...
- A Greek Tragedy: Seizing the Gaza Flotilla on ...
Greece's relationship with Israel suddenly improved after Israel's murderous attack on the Turkish ship a year ago which led to a souring of the long good relations between Israel and Turkey.
- Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible
"The fiscal good has to outweigh the pain," a nameless Democrat told the Washington Post regarding President Obama's latest proposal to massively cut Social Security, against the wishes of the vast majority of Americans.
- Anthony Lawson : Scarier than 9/11/01 was 5/24/11
It was the final nail in a coffin, the construction of which began long ago The Death of American Democracy By Anthony Lawson The collapses of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, on September 11, 2001, were the most frightening images that I have ever seen, up until May 24th, 2011, when B ...
- Hasbara Psychosis
What is absolutely clear is that, once again, the abuser and the murderer considers itself (herself) to be the 'victim'.
- Drawdown of American Troops Has Finally Arrived
Proxy war fought by Pakistan at the behest of USA in 1980s in return for $3.5 billion assistance proved too costly for Pakistan.
- Unsettled June weather to extend into July
Despite the warm and sunny conditions in the last few days, the unsettled weather which plagued much of June looks set to return. June turned out to be wet across the UK, dominated by low pressure. Averaged across England & Wales, 122% of average rainfall was recorded. In our region, for a ch ...
- Storms follow hottest day since July 2006
Thunderstorms have continued to affect parts of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the Southeast of England this afternoon, following yesterday's heat. Temperatures across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday reached 32C (90F) for the first time since July 2006. Both Robin Hood ai ...
- A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...
News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...
- Deluge follows drought order
Sunday saw the heaviest rainfall of the year across parts of Lincolnshire, only 48 hours on from the drought order issued by the Environment Agency for parts of Eastern England. 14.4mm of rain was recorded at Coningsby yesterday. This brings the total since Friday to 28mm of rain, more than hal ...
- Flaming June could end up a washout
June's weather looks set to deteriorate further as low pressure intensifies its grip across the UK. The timing couldn't be more awkward for the Environment Agency who this morning issued a drought order for parts of Eastern England. Only hours later, the Met Office issued yellow warnings in ...
- Novak Djokovic Smoothes Serbia's EU Accession
Before beginning, I must tell you of perhaps the worst marketing gambit of modern times. In November 2009, Adidas decided to make Andy Murray its top tennis endorsee when it already had Novak Djokovic under contract. While it's understandable that getting the Great Hope of British tennis on boar ...
- PRC Rare Earth Metal Hoarding: Fake Trade Issue?
Given several new developments, today's a mighty fine time to update our coverage [1, 2] of worldwide rare earth metal availability provided its importance to modern industrial production. Beginning a year and a half ago, the US, EU and Mexico filed related WTO cases [DS 394, 395 and 396 respect ...
- Fukushima, TEPCO & Kamikaze Shareholder Activism
It is no surprise that with stock prices not rising with any alacrity in the developed world for years and years, shareholder activism has become a high art of sorts. The most common complaint is of firms holding too much cash on hand. Who's brave enough to invest in such an uncertain world? A ...
- Avast Ye Furriners! Arab Spring and 'Saudization'
One of the more interesting angles that migration researchers have focused on in recent years has been that of South-South migration. While the common perception we have of economic migration is of those from developing countries travelling to developed countries, about half of all migration occ ...
- If EMU is Muddled, What More EU Migration Policy?
If you think discord in economic coordination and monitoring are rife in the EU--Greece, Ireland and Portugal are really forcing these issues--what more migration? A side effect of the various uprisings in the Middle East is a steady stream of migrants heading northward to find better lives. Thi ...
- The Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Never Going To En ...
In the past, there certainly have been governments that have gotten into trouble with debt, but what we are experiencing now is the first truly global sovereign debt crisis. There has never been a time in recorded history when virtually all of the governments of the world were ...
- Without Low Interest Rates, The U.S. Financial ...
Right now, interest rates are near historic lows. The U.S. government is able to borrow gigantic mountains of money for next to nothing. U.S. consumers are still able to get home loans, car loans and student loans at ridiculously low interest rates. When this low interest rat ...
- Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt
Every year when July 4th rolls around, Americans from coast to coast celebrate July 4th with cookouts, outdoor concerts and fireworks. We love celebrating Independence Day and yet we are deeply enslaved to debt. We like to think of ourselves as "free" and yet we have rolled up ...
- Will Barack Obama Use The 14th Amendment As A ...
As the deadline to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, many are now wondering if Barack Obama will try to go around Congress if a deal is not reached by August 2nd. In particular, a number of voices (including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) are now touting the 14th ...
- Shell Game
The entire U.S. financial system has become a gigantic shell game. While it is still in motion, a shell game can be mesmerizing to watch. But when it ends the consequences can be painful. So exactly what is a shell game? According to Wikipedia, a shell game "is portrayed as ...
- US Senate drops Libya resolution to focus on n ...
The US Senate hastily dropped plans to vote Tuesday on a symbolic resolution authorising the US role in Libya amid a Republican insurrection to demand action instead on the national debt. Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority leader, said: “We’ve agreed, notwithstanding the broad support fo ...
- 10,000 civilians sentenced in Egypt military trial
At least 10,000 civilians have been sentenced in military trials since Egypt’s January 25 uprising that ousted president Hosny Mubarak, a human rights group said Monday. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to reconsider, saying the ac ...
- France’s anti-US feeling revived over ex-IMF chief
The stunning reversals in the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a putative French presidential candidate, have reawakened a dormant anti-Americanism here, fueled by a sense that the raw, media-driven culture of the United States has undermined justice and fair play. There was shock i ...
- Russia accuses Nato of ‘expanding’ UN Libya re ...
The differences between Nato and Russia over the West’s bombing campaign in Libya were laid bare yesterday after Moscow accused the alliance of interpreting a UN resolution on military intervention to suit its own ends. Tense talks between Nato and Russian officials on the sidelines of a Nato-Ru ...
- Geert Wilders pushes Netherlands to class immi ...
Geert Wilders and his anti-Islam Freedom Party are pushing the Dutch government to class the grandchildren of immigrants as “allochtonen” or non-native. Under current law the third generation children of immigrants in Holland are classified as Dutch, in terms of government statistics and entitle ...
- Imagine How It Feels
How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
I used to think the John Jay College of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
- Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
- Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
- Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...
- 2011-07-07 Sweden - a covert NATO country
TweetEver since the Second World War, official Swedish foreign policy has been one of neutrality, a stance that has been consistent with public opinion: support for Swedish NATO membership has at most times remained below 20%.(1) In 2010, 47% of Swedes held the view that a Swedish application fo ...
- 2011-07-06 #Wikileaks fight for transparency c ...
TweetAs any keen observer must have noticed, the world-wide social turmoil of the last year is closely linked with the availability of information, or in other words, the stark quest for transparency with which corrupt Governments and corporations around the globe have suddenly come face to face ...
- 2011-07-06 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 10:10 PM Sen ...
- 2011-07-06 Growth of privatized prisons in the ...
TweetThe privatized prison industry is a growing international phenomenon. Prisoners are physically confined or interned by third party companies that typically enter into contractual agreements with local, state, or federal governments. Those government entities then pay a per diem or monthly ...
- Le Monde: The Banks and the Bad Apples
Tweetby Alexandre Lévy, Western Balkans Printed in Le Monde 03 July 2011 edition Since the beginning of the Greek crisis, the issue of bank stability and in particular of the bank system in the neighboring countries had been raised insistently. An issue even more pertinent if we take into accoun ...
- Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was ...
Their scientists broke down the genetics of this E. coli strain it's call O104, and if you look at it you can read the history, and the history doesn't lie. This strain was exposed repeatedly to all the 8 major classes of antibiotics that are sold by the drug companies today. This practically gu ...
- The Big Brother State and Global Surveillance
But this also allows the secret services to gather explicit information about the nationality of every traveler. Explicit information such as your fingerprints, the color of your eyes, and a high resolution picture of your face. Information you would usually expect to be taken from suspected cri ...
- State Officials Privates Left Sore by TSA for ...
"And finally I said you're punishing me for opting out, aren't you?". And to her credit she said 'Yes we are'.
- The Age of Transitions – Eugenics and Transhum ...
In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being ac ...
- CNN News Crew Threatened By Police in Joplin M ...
We can tell you about some strange things going on here. The morgue, where these bodies are right now, is a secret morgue. And it literally is secret. You call up officials that can tell us where the morgue is an they say it's a secret we can't tell you. Families don't know where the morgue is. ...
- Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it. As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- A view of Martial Law
Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ People in the United States and most western countries have no idea what it is like to suddenly lose almost or all of their civil rights. People have no concept of the feeling of everything they say and do being controlled and regulated practically within an instant. ...
- Today in the News:
News Today (July 6, 2011) The cost of looking after the country’s ageing population will become unsustainable unless younger generations work longer and pay higher taxes. UK Needs Retirement at 70 Europe’s debt troubles extend beyond Greece, Moody’s became the first ratings agency to cut Portuga ...
- Mystery Shaking at South Korea Skyscraper
A 39-story building in Seoul, South Korea was evacuated today when it reportedly began shaking and shuddering at 10:10 AM. The tremor was said to last for a total of 10 minutes. Roughly 3,000 people were in the building when the shaking started at the ‘Techno Mart‘, a skyscraper mostly containin ...
- Today in the News:
News Today (July 5, 2011) âThe system doesnât really have the motivation to teach people how to be healthy,â but rather rely on unnecessary â yet costly â medication. US: ‘Health Care only cares about profit’ Hundreds of bankers will lose their jobs over coming weeks, victims of what senior boss ...
- Dehydration – More Common Than You Think
Dehydration occurs when the amount of water leaving the body is greater than the amount being taken in. Makes sense, yes? Up to 75% of the body’s weight is made up of water. Five quarts of blood coursing through your body are ninety percent water, and the rest of your body holds between fifty an ...
- Percolate: The Microblogging Platform Where Tu ...
The startup, currently in its "double secret alpha" version, taps into your RSS and Twitter feeds, culls content based on your interests--the stuff that "percolates up"--and then lets you share your thoughts on the subject with friends. Noah Brier is drinking coffee. It's cold and damp outside ...
- Phone-Hacking Scandal Shuts A UK Newspaper
In the wake of en extensive high-tech phone-hacking scandal, Britain's tabloid newspaper News of the World is killed off. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.Phone Hacking Newspaper Shut Down. Britain's News of The World paper has found out that soci ...
- Foodzy: Making Dieting A Game For You And Your ...
A new app lets you track all your meals, gamifying eating healthy and making what you eat a social activity. Is this the new Weight Watchers? How much food did you eat yesterday? What about the day before? You probably know generally, but we're in an age now of hyper measurements of personal ...
- Dirty Coal And Algae Fuel: The Start Of A Beau ...
Algae eats CO2, and then it makes fuel. Where do we have a lot of CO2? Spewing out of coal power plants. Now OriginOil is working to use those emissions to feed algae and ramp up the biofuels business. At first glance, a marriage between algae and coal-fired power plants seems unlikely. One is ...
- Cracking The Body's Source Code With Your Smar ...
A new app will help you diagnose and track skin conditions--from wrinkles to melanoma. But if even doctors haven't fully mastered the use of health apps, it might not be time to start making your phone your primary care physician.You wonder about that mole, don't you? That one there, on your arm ...
- إدوارد سعيد في تطوّره الفكري: من شـرق غرب إلى ...
المقالة هي نتاج إعادة قراءة لكتاب «الاستشراق» بعد ثلاثين سنة على صدوره. تدفعني النظرة الجديدة المتفحصة لهذا السفر الاستثنائي إلى التساؤل النقدي عن الاستخدامات المجزوءة والمتغرضة للكتاب، بالاعتماد على عمليتين. الأولى، وصْل ما انقطع بين «الاستشراق» ومؤلفه ليعود الكتاب إلى احتلال موقعه في ت ...
- Egypt's Incomplete Revolution: The Challenge o ...
While Hosni Mubarak awaits trial the security state he built is fighting for its survival and, with the help of Egypt�s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, may pull through. As the clock ticks toward September parliamentary polls, the champions of January 25th are struggling to raze Mub ...
- مطلوب صندل وبشكل فوري لسجن الجلبوع
- �� أعط�� �سخة م� ا�ص�رة ا�ت� أرس�ت�ا با��ا�س� - �ا! - �ماذا ع� ا�ص�رة ا�ت� أر��ت�ا �رسا�ت� م� �ب� أسب�ع� أ�م تص�� - �ا � �م أست�م ش�ئ�ا. ���م� محادثت�ا� �ع�امات ا�تعجب تج�� �� با��ا� ب��ما ��ظر �ع�ارب ا�ساعة ا�ت� تدا�م�ا �تسر� م�ا ا���ت� �تع�� �جأة د�� ساب� إ�ذار ع� إ�ت�اء ا�خ ...
- Jadaliyya Launches Section on Occupation, Inte ...
Jadaliyya is delighted to announce the launching of its newest page: Occupation, Intervention, Law or O.I.L. (click here to access the page directly). This page is co-edited by Lisa Hajjar, Sherene Seikaly, Mouin Rabbani, and myself. The purpose of O.I.L. is to explore the relationship b ...
- Human Dignity in Jerusalem
The lengthy history of Jerusalem is distinguished by diverse episodes of both benevolent tolerance and inhumane intolerance. For several lengthy periods, such as most of the nineteenth century, a spirit of coexistence generally characterized the holy city. On too many other occasions, it ...
- Reuters.com Gets Another 'New Look', Starting ...
David Kaplan / paidContent: Reuters.com Gets Another ‘New Look’, Starting With Homepage — Less than two years after Reuters.com got a major overhaul to make it more “consumer-facing”, the site is getting another revamp that reflects the changes being put in place by Stephen Adler and Chrysti ...
- 'Social Journalism': News You Can Take to the ...
Tom Grubisich / Street Fight: ‘Social Journalism’: News You Can Take to the Bottom Line — The LJ World in Lawrence, Kan., has long been a fount of innovation in local digital journalism — especially in how to build and foster more and deeper community connections. Jane Stevens, the site's di ...
- Three-quarters of people who pay for apps woul ...
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: Three-quarters of people who pay for apps would buy news apps — A new Nielsen survey of people who download apps on their smartphones finds that 39 percent had used a news app in the past 30 days. It also found that 76 percent of people who paid for any kind of app ...
- What Facebook, Google video chat means for TV ...
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: What Facebook, Google video chat means for TV — As predicted by just about everyone, Facebook's “awesome” new product is video calling, powered by Skype. Facebook rolled it out today — it's a quick plugin download — and you simple click a “call” button next to a ...
- Reporters change an insular Jewish world (Matt ...
Matti Friedman / Associated Press: Reporters change an insular Jewish world — JERUSALEM (AP) — In the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, the fact that the news is being reported is itself important news. — A decade ago, brawling between two ultra-Orthodox factions over real es ...
- Singapore Temasek investments edge up to ...
SINGAPORE -- Singaporean state investment company Temasek Holdings said its investments inched higher to a fresh record high in its last financial year as Asian companies reaped solid profits. Temasek said in an annual report Thursday that the value of its investments rose 3.8 percent to 19 ...
- Plant a tree in the fall for shade in yea ...
The hot summer weather may have home owners thinking about trees, but experts say now's not the best time to plant them. If you can, wait until fall because fall trees do better, said Brian Jervis, horticulture extension educator with Tulsa Master Gardeners. A 3- to 6-inch layer of mulch an ...
- Why Hollywood drives Emma insane
It is traditionally the place where every starlet heads to seek fame and fortune. But at 21 Emma Watson already has both of those in abundance and sees little need to relocate to Los Angeles. The actress, who plays Hermione in the Harry Potter films, has admitted she was put off by Hollywoo ...
- Some cities slow to cover up drinking wat ...
PORTLAND, Ore. - Josh Seater could have done some serious harm when he stepped up to the wrought-iron fence around a Portland reservoir last month if he were holding something more ominous than a full bladder. The open-air reservoir contains treated water that goes directly to people's spig ...
- How to trek to Amarnath cave? Shrine boar ...
Srinagar, July 7 (IANS) Thursday, July 07, 2011 --> No cigarettes, no plastic, no slippers and no saris either please... as the number of devotees who performed the Amarnath pilgrimage reached 150,000 Thursday, the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) again issued a detailed list of dos and do ...
- Cassini Captures Images and Sounds of Saturn Storm
Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Watching too much TV is linked to Early Death
Watching TV is our most common activity that is enjoyable and pleasurable for many of us. Many people seem to have obsessed with TV especially kids and housewives. They don�t just limit themselves to the television set but also watching on mobile and.....Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
- Dead soldiers' families 'hacked'
Phones owned by relatives of dead UK soldiers were allegedly hacked by the News of the World, a national newspaper reports.The Daily Telegraph claims the phone numbers of relatives of dead service personnel were found in the files of private investigator Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- 11 Least Diverse Colleges in America
Diversity is often centered around cultural and racial differences, other issues � like economics � are also important and can seriously impact a student's experience at an institution of higher education. While there is no perfect formula for diversity..Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Chimp recognises synthetic speech
A talented chimpanzee called Panzee can recognise distorted and incomplete words spoken by a computer, scientists have discovered.That suggests that apes may be more capable of perceiving spoken sounds than previously thought, and that the common ancestorSubmitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
- 7/1/11 - Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation P ...
felonvoting.procon.org - NEW: Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation Populations in the US, 1980-2009 - The total correctional population in the US grew from 1,840,400 in 1980 to 7,255,800 in 2009. In 1980 there were 319,598 people in prison, and by 2009 that population had expanded to 1,524,513 i ...
- 6/29/11 - New York Becomes the Sixth State to ...
gaymarriage.procon.org - New York Becomes the Sixth State to Legalize Gay Marriage: Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law on June 24, 2011 that grants same-sex couples the right to marry, more than doubling the number of Americans living in states that allow same-sex marriage. New York jo ...
- 6/29/11 - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Ba ...
videogames.procon.org - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Banning Sale of Violent Video Games to Minors: On June 27, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association that the California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors violated free speec ...
- 6/24/11 - Chart of Energy Use by State and by ...
alternativeenergy.procon.org - NEW: Chart of Energy Use by State and by Source, 2008 - In 2008, the US used fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum) for 83.5 percent of its energy needs. Renewable energy (wind, solar, and biofuels) accounted for 7.4 percent. Nuclear energy represented 8. ...
- 6/22/11 - Is the use of standardized tests imp ...
standardizedtests.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America? - Standardized tests have been a part of American education since the mid-1800s. Their use skyrocketed after 2002's No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) mandated annual testing in ...
- THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN
Here is a video that “they” don’t want you to see. They’re going after the video maker for “copyright” BS because of the song “Uprising”, which, if you look up in youtube is in TONS of other videos which are NOT being targeted. Â Selective targeting, hhhhmmmmm….
- Global Awakening Defined: We Are Just Beginnin ...
- David Icke and Others on Chemtrails
I’ve been wondering lately, if by posting these kinds of stories, I’m doing exactly what “they” want, to perpetuate fear and confusion… In this case, chemtrails, I have no proof that it’s true, other then having seen those “trails” up in the sky myself. Â I don’t know if they’re chemtrails or tr ...
- Massive wildfires threaten to ignite 30000 bar ...
If nothing else, just question the “coincidence ” of various nuclear facilities being threatened now, either by earthquakes (Fukushima), fire (New Mexico), or water (Nebraska). Â Mother nature having it’s revenge , or… planned??? July 01, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson Threats of radioactive disaster ...
- Look who’s buying up flood ravaged farm land
Double Red Alert Posted by Ann Barnhardt Missouri River Flooding Cattle commodities broker Ann writes: Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I�ve had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts. 1. File this one under �Now It All Makes Sense�. ...
- India’s Vanishing Vultures
Meera Subramanian Can the worldâs fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences? At first, no one noticed they were missing. Vulturesâmassive and clumsy, their naked faces buried in rotting flesh along the roadside, on the banks of the Ganges, lini ...
- Kidnap Capital
Why Mexico’s snatching epidemic is worse than anything we’ve seen before. BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON MEXICO CITY â On a quiet November day nearly two years ago, Luis Ãngel León Rodriguez called his mother, Araceli, to tell her he would be leaving town for a while. The 24-year-old federal police off ...
- The World’s Greatest Light Bulb
Dump your fluorescents and incandescents for this amazing new LED bulb. By Farhad Manjoo The Switch light bulb When I drove to the offices of a start-up called Switch Lighting last week, I wasn’t expecting much. A company representative had promised to show me something amazingâan alternative li ...
- Kaplan reviews Kissinger’s China book
Robert Kaplan Best Defense officemate Henry Kissinger’s On China really gets rolling on page 90, when we get to the Communist period in Chinese history. Then, for the next 440 pages, the reader is riveted. Kissinger, it is often forgotten, has always been adroit at drawing historical portraits, ...
- The million missing Israelis
Joseph Chamie, Barry Mirkin Over more than six decades of statehood, successive Israeli governments have repeatedly stressed the centrality of Jewish immigration and the Law of Return of all Jews to Israel for the well-being, security, and survival of the nation. Yet while much is published on J ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted. Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
- How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
- TVO Canada interviews Gage, Zwicker, Zarembka ...
http://ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/513-tvo-debate.html Written by AE911Truth Staff | 17 may 2011 Canadian Public Broadcasting TV Station TVO Interviewed AE911Truth's Richard Gage, AIA, Barrie Zwicker (Towers of Deception), Author Paul Zarembka on the program "The Agenda" wi ...
- A green tide sweeps Canberra
On 4th July 2011 the Greens will control nine seats in the Federal Senate, giving them the balance of power and ushering in a new era of enviro-politics. Tonight Josh Jackson and I wade into the battle over carbon taxes and attempt to restore some sanity to the debate. In particular we take ...
- 9/11 Troll Alert
Coinciding with the approaching 10th anniversary of 9/11, it seems we are experiencing a new campaign to undermine and destroy the 9/11 truth movement. Truther groups have been buzzing over the past two days with news about the "defection" of Love Police founder Charlie Veitch from the 9/11 t ...
- TSA’s assault on human dignity continues ...
There has been the usual hand wringing and a flood of TV reports over the latest TSA outrage: the "grope down" of a six year old girl, daughter of Todd and Selena Drexel, at an airport in New Orleans. I present below some of the recent coverage: "Right now at Armstrong International ...
- Duelling carbon tax rallies in Sydney
Hereward Fenton reports on pro and anti carbon tax rallies held in Sydney on 2 April 2011. Some observations about these events: The anti-carbon tax protest was composed of a wide demographic in terms of age, education and occupation, whereas the pro carbon tax group appeared to be ma ...
- Breaking: Chile Passes Shark Finning Ban
Fantastic news! Earlier this afternoon, the Chilean National Congress passed a nationwide ban on shark finning. This groundbreaking decision comes on the heels of a very similar ban passed by the United States Congress last December, and puts both countries at the forefront of shark conserv ...
- Diving in the San Juan Islands
� Oceana This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: On their first day in Washington, the team saw a minke whale, harbor seals and more in the San Juan Islands. Washington Leg, Day 1 Just before 5 a.m., captain Todd Shuster started the ...
- Oceana Uncovers Dangerous Mercury Levels in Fish
© Oceana/Juan Cuetos Spain’s biggest newspaper, El País, featured Oceana prominently in this morning’s cover story. The article describes Oceana’s unrelenting effort to make previously confidential research regarding unsafe mercury levels in large fish freely accessible to the public, highl ...
- News from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Small velella surrounded by plastic. © Scripps Institution of Oceanography Imagine you�re in a dimly lit Italian restaurant. Famished, you take the first bite of a juicy eggplant parmesan dinner, and it turns out to be a big hunk of plastic. (Yuk.) That�s the reality for fish in an area of ...
- Oceana's New Sea Turtle Children's Book
A sea turtle drawing by a student at Seaside Elementary in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Author Eric Douglas and Oceana collaborated recently to create a children’s book, “The Sea Turtle Rescue.” The book features illustrations by the talented students at Seaside Elementary School in Myrtle Beach, Sou ...
- Following Obama’s Buzz Words
[... It’s safe to say at this point that the White House is starting to get the credit it wants for working hard to find a compromise even as Republicans work hard to resist one. But that’s not a triumph of messaging. It is, if anything, an understatement based on the White House’s willingness t ...
- Post and Times: Obama to Serve Up Social Secur ...
Shooting for another accomplishment, if the reporting is correct, Pres. Obama expects his “broader deal” bravery to impress Independents, while Democrats nod seriously saying, “It had to be done.” As for what Republicans will give in return, “Aides to Mr. Boehner said that no tax increases were ...
- Queer Talk: Ninth Circuit Lifts Stay Barring ...
Joyce Arnold is a liberal Independent activist whose column “Queer Talk” appears regularly on Saturdays, and occasionally on other days of the week. Today the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the permanent injunction against enforcement of âDonât Ask, Donât Tell.â The injunction was origi ...
- Out of the Mouth of Patrick J. Buchanan
Mika asked Buchanan this morning why, putting aside the Republicans’ constituency, “why Republicans can’t give in some way, shape or form on taxes?” The reason Pres. Obama can’t get a deal with Republicans? “It’s not only politics, it is principle and philosophy. They think it’s the wrong way to ...
- Romney Remains the One to Beat, Bachmann a Dis ...
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney raised $18.25 million over the past three months, a sum likely to put him head and shoulders above his rivals for the 2012 Republican nomination in the dash for cash. Romney’s fundraising dwarfs that of his Republican opponents. Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) rai ...
- Britain Debates Forced Marriage
After years of kowtowing to multicultural sensitivities, Britain is now debating whether or not to make the act of forcing someone into a marriage a specific criminal offense. Supporters of the anti-forced marriage legislation, which may be unveiled by
- China's Continuing Drive For Space Power
Sometime between now and the end of this year, China plans to launch the first module of its new space station, confirming that China is determined to become a full-fledged, independent, comprehensive, world class power in outer space. China's methodical
- The Iraqi Government: Iranian Satrap or Americ ...
When it comes to internal Iraqi politics, there is an alluring tendency to analyze events in terms of foreign forces at work in the country. For example, the Independent's Beirut-based columnist Robert Fisk disparages the Iraqi government as a "satrap of
- Environmental Activism
Despite all the talk about energy independence emanating from Washington DC, this government and its allies in the environmental movement do whatever they can to thwart this goal. Based on reliable discoveries in Utah, Arizona and Colorado there may be
- Emphasis Placed on Word Choice in Turkish-Isra ...
High-level negotiations to mend Turkey-Israel relations continue in New York ahead of the release of a United Nations report on the Gaza flotilla raid, as Turkish and Israeli officials search for the "right word with the right meaning" in a last-ditch
- Two Harvard cannabinoid papers retracted
The Retraction Watch blog reports that Harvard researchers have retracted two papers, Last week's paper was pulled from Blood for "multiple instances of duplicate (redundant) publication of data, text, and images that are nonessential to the paper." The retraction notice referred to a paper in ...
- BU research challenges climate change skeptics
From the BBC: The lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008 was mainly caused by a sharp rise in China's coal use, a study suggests. The absence of a temperature rise over that decade is often used by "climate sceptics" as grounds for denying the existence of man-made global warming. But the n ...
- Wednesday: Cambridge scientist explains immune ...
The first in Broad's MIdsummer Nights' Science events. Go for no other reason than to check out the DNArium. (Last year they had carrot cake too.) Find a video preview and more details on the Broad blog. Nir Hacohen, a faculty member at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, ...
- Knight News Tracker takes on Naomi Wolf and th ...
We can't wait to see the comments on this one. The MIT-based site, which critiques science reporting, takes on Naomi Wolf's post on CNN's Global Public Square entitled "Is pornography driving men crazy?" She used recent public sex scandals as her starting point, talking about "how many highly ...
- Guest post: Industry-funded spine research off ...
The New York Times said the most recent issue of the Spine Journal "represents a watershed in the long-running debate over conflicts of interest for the sponsorship of scientific studies by makers of drugs and medical devices. It is extremely rare for researchers to publicly chastise colleagues, ...
- 'Green cities' in the US and Canada, kind of ...
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC Earlier this week I reviewed the overall, land use, and transportation components of the new “Green City Index,” which rates and ranks 27 cities in the US and Canada o ...
- Experts Call for More Government Support to Ca ...
Shravya Reddy, India Analyst, New York On June 29, NRDC organized a roundtable discussion in New York with leading scientists, researchers, universities, corporations, investment firms and some non profits, all of whom are keenly interested in col ...
- EPA finalizes punt on carbon pollution from bi ...
Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City On July 1, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson signed the final plan giving facilities burning biomass a three-year exemption from Clean Air Act permitting requirements for carbon dio ...
- Common Sense Rethink for the Oceans
Lisa Speer, Director of the International Oceans Program, New York “Not only are we already experiencing severe declines in many species to the point of commercial extinction in some cases, and an unparalleled rate of regional extinctions of hab ...
- Protecting the Giant Groupers of the Deep
David Newman, Oceans Program Attorney, New York When it comes to the ocean’s biggest animals, you probably think of whales, or perhaps fast and flashy fish like blue marlin. Well, let me introduce you to the giant groupers. These are massive and ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, July 6, 2011: � Ferndale MI police sued by wife of unarmed man fatally shot by cop on dashcam during a car chase. While the officer was cleared by claiming self defense, the video ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, July 5, 2011: 3 New Haven CT cops caught on video repeatedly kicking, punching & beating man in street, wasn’t resisting [3] http://bit.ly/nj00Kd Porterville CA sued by family of m ...
- Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 07-02 ...
Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Independence Day weekend of July 2 through July 4, 2011: Los Angeles County CA makes a tentative $500k settlement offer to the family of a teen who was fatally shot by a deputy in an inciden ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday the first of July, 2011: Portsmouth VA is being sued by the family of a man they claim was stumbling drunk and unarmed when he was fatally shot 11x by cop claiming he lunged [3] [...]
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, June 30, 2011: A Detroit MI gang cop is on admin duty while investigated over an excessive force incident that was captured on surveillance video which helped spark a civil rights ...
- Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter loses cont ...
An F-15 fighter of the Air Self-Defense Force’s Naha Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture went missing during a training flight over the East China Sea Tuesday morning, Defense Ministry officials said. While the ASDF and the Japan Coast Guard’s 11th Regional Headquarters in Naha, Okinawa, are still se ...
- 14 Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Br ...
There is nothing more sacred to the maintenance of democracy than a free press. Access to comprehensive, accurate and quality information is essential to the manifestation of Socratic citizenship – the society characterized by a civically engaged, well-informed and socially invested populace. Th ...
- Climate of Denial – Can Science and the Truth ...
The first time I remember hearing the question “is it real?” was when I went as a young boy to see a traveling show put on by “professional wrestlers” one summer evening in the gym of the Forks River Elementary School in Elmwood, Tennessee. The evidence that it was real was palpable: “They’re re ...
- No US warships off Kuwait
The State department said today there was “absolutely no truth” in a Moscow Radio report that five U.S. warships had arrived in Kuwait waters. Meanwhile, the main British troops landings at the Persian Gulf State of Kuwait will be completed by tomorrow or on Thursday. Foreign Secretary Lord Home ...
- Sudanese army seizes southern Libyan town – or ...
The Telegraph reports:Â Officials overseeing the no-fly zone enforced by Nato over Libya said the Sudanese move north of border had not encountered resistance from troops loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi. Since the February uprising against his regime, the Libyan leader’s forces have been concentrat ...
- YouTube’s got a great new look, and you can tr ...
YouTube has unveiled a gorgeous experimental new design which it’s called Cosmic Panda. As you can see in the screenshot below, it looks gorgeous. To get yourself switched over to the new design click here. Although it hasn’t been officially announced, the experiment has been tweeted about by a ...
- LaDiDa and The Gregory Brothers team up to lau ...
Khush, the company behind LaDiDa, a reverse karaoke application for the iPhone, has partnered with YouTube sensations The Gregory Brothers, creators of Bed Intruder Song on a free iPhone app to give everyone the chance to sound like an auto-tuned rock star. The app is easy to use, all you have ...
- Google Map downloading comes to Android. Get i ...
Google has announced that it has made Google Map downloading available in the Labs for Android devices. While this doesn’t mean that the feature is arriving quite yet in your favorite Android navigation app, it’s a good first step and you can test it now in Google Maps right on your phone. The ...
- The Google+ guide for punctuation pedants
Google+ is like the cool kid in school, everyone’s talking about it but not everybody is getting to play with it. A lot has been written about Google’s new social platform in the past ten days, but one thing that hasn’t been overly analyzed is its name. In the URL its called ‘Google Plus’, but ...
- Researchers mine Twitter data to understand Am ...
Tweets from across the USA have been used by researchers to gain an understanding of how Americans see their health. The BBC reports that two computer scientists from  John Hopkins University, Baltimore developed a special search filter to identify 1.5 million health-related tweets published ...
- Time Ripening Fast For Australia To Down Renew ...
At the recent UN Climate Talks in held in Bonn, a spokesperson for Germany's Federal Environment Agency (Eric Fee) gave a presentation outlining how Germany's energy sector could transition to a 100 per cent renewable electricity supply by 2050. The presentation was based on a 2010 study unde ...
- Time for Sustainable House Design
While the Federal Government is making half-hearted commitments to energy efficiency, trail-blazing architecture firms like G-O Logic Homes and Victoria�s own Sunpower Design are proving that sustainable housing need not cost an arm and a leg � nor necessitate the owning of a hair shirt. In Vic ...
- Labor’s Solar Flagships: Smoke and Mirrors…and ...
The Federal Government's choice of picking French state owned nuclear giant Areva to build a Solar plant based on out‐dated technology is a move that has surprised the climate and energy security think‐tank Beyond Zero Emissions. The proposed plant near the controversial coal seam gas fields at ...
- Clearing the Air on Climate Change
The annual �Science meets Parliament� (SMP) is underway this week. With debates raging over the carbon tax, representatives from The Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) are highlighting and addressing the poor scientific literacy exercised in political a ...
- Electric vehicles: will Australia miss its ride?
The future is looking bright for electric vehicles (EV) � and their investors. Last week, California-based EV infrastructure company Better Place Australia (BPA) signed a landmark deal with multi-utility company ActewAGL to the amount of $60 million dollars over ten years. The agreement will ho ...
- Thousands flock to CBF ‘Talent: ID 2011’ event ...
The recently launched ‘Talent: ID 2011’ programme of events being run by the Craig Bellamy Foundation are proving to be a big hit across Sierra Leone. Already over 2,000 players have participated in the programme which the Craig Bellamy Foundation hopes will help them to unearth the next genera ...
- Allieu Sesay’s acquittal is an eye opener!
High Courtâs acquittal of Allieu Sesay and five others apparently educates the easy to fool society (journalistsâ all-encompassing) that not all investigated and prosecuted by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) are blameworthy of corruption allegation. In the well of the court there is always ...
- First Lady’s land scam violates presidential o ...
“The First Lady secured the land at Aberdeen two years ago,” words of the Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment, Allieu Pat-Sowe. It could be recalled that the ruling APC party, months after taking over governance of the state of Sierra Leone, imposed a moratorium on the signin ...
- IBSA students bag scholarships
The Institute of Business Studies & Administration (IBSA) in collaboration with Initiative Capacity Building Association (ICBA) has awarded two scholarships to outstanding students of the Department of Accounting and Finance. Mabel Mena and Emma Paris (beauty pageant), were offered scholarships ...
- Tonkolili District gets new CCFC
The Tonkolili District Council has got a new Central Chiefdom Financial Clerk (CCFC) following the retirement of Mr. Daniel M. Tholley who has been sent on a sixty days leave to retirement. Mr. Samuel Yamba Koroma aka (SYK) former treasury clerk of Yonibana Chiefdom in Mile 91 in the Tonkolili D ...
- Get rich through farming, says Time
From Stephen Gandel, in Time Magazine: “If you want to become rich, Jim Rogers, investment whiz, best-selling author and one of Wall Street’s towering personalities, has this advice: Become a farmer. Food prices have been high recently. Some have questioned … Continue reading →
- Chemical accident at Tyson chicken processing ...
From Natural News.com “The accidental mixing of two unidentified chemicals at a Tyson chicken processing plant in Springdale, Ark., has landed 173 of its roughly 300 workers in the hospital, according to reports. The two chemicals, which Tyson refused to … Continue reading →
- Goodbye to the 4th raw milk blue bus
From Michael Schmidt:Â Next week a new, 5th Blue Bus generation will start it’s service to provide fresh milk to the share members. Almost every four years we usually can use the bus then it falls apart and gets tired … Continue reading →
- C. difficile outbreak in Ontario kills 16
From CBC news: “Another patient linked to a C. difficile outbreak in Ontario’s Niagara Region has died, bringing the total number of deaths in recent weeks to 16. The deaths have been reported at three hospitals in the region in recent weeks: … Continue reading →
- Learning from how Cuba’s farming adapted ...
From Russ, on his “Volatility” blog: “Cubaâs âSpecial Periodâ has been the time since the collapse of the Soviet Union forced it upon the path of food self-sufficiency with minimal fossil fuel inputs. Cuba had previously exported sugar and other … Continue reading →
- Weekly Unemployment Claims Exceed 400,000 13th ...
The number of initial unemployment claims remains elevated. Here is the table I posted last week. Initial Unemployment Claims For 2011 We can now tack on another week. Please consider the Department of Labor Weekly Claims Report. In the week ending July 2, the advance figure for seasonally ...
- ECB Suspends Collateral Rules for Portuguese D ...
The comedy show continues in the EU today with an announcement by ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet that he will suspend collateral rules on debt for Portugal. Please consider ECB signals more rate rises to come, helps PortugalThe European Central Bank raised interest rates for the second time ...
- Unions vs. Banks: Reader Question Regarding Gr ...
Reader Jeddy spots what he thinks is a conflict in my typical "privatization" message and inquires Hello Mish I'm confused about your stance in Portuguese 10-Year Government Bond Yield Soars to 13.05%; Italy, Portugal, Ireland, all Fresh New Highs; Focus On the "Unsaved" Usually you think priv ...
- Greek Sovereignty Massively Limited; You Canno ...
Jean-Claude Junker, the man who says "When it becomes serious, you have to lie", apparently has had a sudden splash of honesty, stating Greek sovereignty to be massively limited.Greece faces severe restrictions on its sovereignty and must privatize state assets on a scale similar to the sell off ...
- "Hamster Wheel Economy"
Trimtabs says the U.S. economy added 171,000 jobs in June. However, real wage and salary growth is -2.0% year-over-year when adjusted for 3.6% inflation and 2% payroll tax cut. Via Email ...The U.S. economy added 171,000 jobs in June, reports TrimTabs Investment Research. The June gain follows ...
- The EyeOpener: Who Watches the Watchdogs?
What influence do corporate foundation donors have over the organizations they are propping up? Last month, the EyeOpener investigated the “transparency award” that was bestowed on Obama this past March by a bevy of government watchdog NGOs who are ostensibly advocating for more government openn ...
- Part II. The Journey from Watch-Dogs to Lap-Dogs
A Classic Story of Government Watch-Dogs Turned Corporate-Foundation Lap-Dogs I am not a big fan of ‘one size fits all.’ I do not subscribe to ‘everything is either black or white.’ I usually refrain from hasty labeling and categorization based on too few facts. With that said, and with no hesit ...
- The Missing Words in Our Declaration of Indepe ...
 “I hereby declare, on oath, that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domesticâ-Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to USA Yesterday, as I was walking among grocery shelves, I passed by thousands of packaged hotdog ...
- Podcast Show #48
The Boiling Frogs Presents Russ Baker Russ Baker joins us to discuss the case of the former Israeli Spy Chief Meir Dagan, who contends that Israel’s top leaders lack judgment, considers a military attack on Iran “a stupid idea”, and criticizes Israel for having failed to put forward a peace init ...
- Part I. The Tentacles of Megas: Reaching from ...
Who Controls Who with What The mega billionaires of the mega corporations directly influence and control the mega public servants – think from presidents down to presidentsâ appointees. Some aptly refer to these âmegasâ collectively as the shadow government. The mega billionaires of the mega cor ...
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